>Well now I'll have to try it and see if it works half way decent OR is the "anticipated" bad idea. I'll report back here when done.
>(also the Sleep() api produces a wait state and works extremely well in a vfp dll server in iis)

Sure it works, but why would you put an IIS thread to sleep on purpose? Seriously this is a terrible idea... If you're doing some sort of async processing that requires waiting for a response from some other operation this should be offloaded to a separate async process that can handle this task without tying up Web Server processing. That's what async processing and queing was designed for.

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