What is a clever way

Question

To avoid cfquery timeout errors?
Note: I can't do anything to make my db or server faster because its hosted
I am looking for a CF solution to avoid throwing the user a timeout error (which presents them with a custom error page).  What I'd like to do is have some logic try to reload the page x amount of times if it hasn't loaded in say... 20 seconds.
Any ideas?

Answer 1

I doubt you'll find a clever way, since this is a not-clever problem.
You could try something like this:
<cfset keepGoing = true>
<cfset counter = 1>
<cfloop condition="#keepGoing#">
<cfset counter = counter +1>
<cftry>
<cfquery...>
<cfset keepGoing = false>
<cfcatch>
<!--- so you don't keep trying forever -->
<cfif counter eq 3>
  <cfset keepGoing = false>
</cfif>
</cfloop>
<cfreturn queryVar>
Definitely not pretty, but it would achieve part of what you want, which is to keep trying. IT does not achieve clever, because it's kind of a dumb problem to have ... sort of like the rats in "Bad Boys II" that keep eating the drug dealer's money: "It's a stupid problem to have, but it's  a problem nonetheless".
Good luck!