hello, <ara.t.howard / noaa.gov> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.62.0601301323530.4780 / harp.ngdc.noaa.gov... > > heh - i probably do get a little pedantic with that stuff - but it's so > hard > to debug i just try to avoid it all together! ;-) > i think it is not possuble to avoid this problem in a web application which caches its output in the server's filesystem. is it? your code returns an error if it cannot create the file, how do you handle this error? when trying to create a cache in a web application, would sleep and retry strategy be reasonable here? thanks konstantin