On Tuesday 03 June 2003 10:45 am, Brent Vukmer wrote:
> My recent Squeak work has done a lot of downloading via HTTP,
> hitting the swiki.gsug.org server.  My impression is that
> HTTPSocket is not very robust for handling situations where it
> should retry a request; I routinely find that loading about a
> hundred URLs is enough to create an error within Squeak.  

What error?

Are you getting "data was late" messages on the transcript?

The HTTPSocket will try 3 times to wait for up to 5 seconds for a 
response, then will return a default that's easy to test for.

However, I'd prefer it to raise an Exception and let the application 
determine a retry policy (and a timeout, for that matter).

In your case, it would make more sense to not retry immediately, but 
to take the potential retries and save them for later.

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