The FoxWeb channel broker automatically assigns requests to the first available channel, so you don't need to do that manually in your scripts. If all channels are busy, requests are queued for execution. If no channel becomes available after a predetermined amount of time, then an error message is returned. If you find yourself in this situation a lot, then you may want to increase the channel timeout value, the total number of channels, and most importantly the efficiency of your programs.
If for some reason you want to check the status of your channels remotely, you can do so by calling
http://www.server.com/show_channels.fwx (replace www.server.com with the name of your server).
FoxWeb Support Team
support@foxweb.com
Sent by Faith on 12/27/2001 11:06:22 PM:
Is there any way that I can do in my program to report channels' status? To do the statistic and even to alert and the user that channels' are busy? Furthermore, to direct users' requests to another channel?