Original Question
I have a working version of my web application that I am trying to upgrade at the moment, and I'm running into the issue of having a task which takes too long to complete in during a single HTTP request. The application takes a JSON list from a JavaScript front end by an HTTP Post operation, and returns a sorted/sliced version of that list. As the input list gets longer, the sorting operation takes a much longer time to perform (obviously), so on suitably long input lists, I hit the 60 second HTTP request timeout, and the application fails.I have a working version of
