>concerning requests, scope etc--I pretty muchfigured these things weren't >global, but i don't understsand how I can know ahead of time when a >request ends. you say it is a line in the web log. Does this mean thata >ariable dies if, say, I define it and then a gif file is requested? So >if I define a variable and then request a gif file, that the variable >goes away because the gif file is another request?
The GIF file is a totally separate request. The duration of an SPML request is the time it takes to process the page from beginning to end.
I think that the #set sample should help you to understand this.
