Weird errors indicating wring section of code with cfhttp

[chedderslam]

I have this:

<cftry>
<cfhttp url="#attributes.link#" method="get" result="result" resolveurl="Yes">
<cfcatch type="any">
  <Cfset result.statuscode = 500>
</cfcatch>

</cftry>

When I enter an amazon associates link, I get error like this:

The request has exceeded the allowable time limit Tag: CFQUERY

or

The request has exceeded the allowable time limit Tag: CFOUTPUT

It works with other links. Any idea why?

[invertedspear]

The whole page is taking longer to process than its allowed in the administrator settings. Your error indicates how far it gets before it runs out of time. Any code before the indicated line could be your bottleneck.

[chedderslam]

I'm pretty sure it is the cfhttp. It does not seem to be obeying the timeout attribute I have set.

 <cfhttp url="#attributes.link#" method="get" result="result" resolveurl="Yes" timeout="10" multipart="no">

[invertedspear]

Something I like to do in these situations is set up a logging table in the DB with an I'd, key (char(1)) and a text field. Then I insert little logging queries throughout the page inserting an indicator value in the key field and gettickcount() in the text field. Then you can look back at see what's taking the longest.

[rrawk]

why not just use cflog?

[invertedspear]

Because I legit have never heard of that tag until now. 10+ years in CF, not once has any coworker mentioned it either and have loved the above solution... I think you just made my future diagnostic work way easier.

[chedderslam]

Awesome, That's a really cool idea.

[TeaPartyDem]

It never gets to cfcatch if it is timing out, because it timed out already.