Wget and HTTPSocket
Brent Vukmer
bvukmer at blackboard.com
Tue Jun 3 18:27:43 UTC 2003
I'm getting "data was slow" in the Transcript. I'll try saving the
retries for later.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ned Konz [mailto:ned at bike-nomad.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 2:17 PM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: Re: Wget and HTTPSocket
>
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Ned Konz
> http://bike-nomad.com
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