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- >I've noticed occasionally that trying to contact an http server that
- >seems to be down (at least with ViolaWWW & MidasWWW) will result in
- >hangs (or very very long pauses). Shouldn't a 30-second timeout or
- >something similar be in effect at all times?
-
- The way I would like MidasWWW to work is that it would try to connect for about
- 2 seconds, after which a dialog box would pop up looking something like:
-
- ------------------------------------
- | Connecting to XXX.XXX.XXX... |
- | |
- | ----------- |
- | | Abort! | |
- ------------------------------------
-
- Where you click on abort if you get tired of waiting.
-
- Only problem is that I don't know how to achieve this, since the Unix "connect"
- routine I use to connect to the remote server is synchronous. If anyone has
- an example of a portable way to asnychronously connect over TCPIP I would be
- happy to incoportate it. (In fact I don't even know how to set the timeout
- period).
-
- >Also, is there any way to specify backup servers? Does anyone else
- >think this would be useful?
-
- Yes this would be very useful, especially for the "master indexes" such as
- "academic information" at CERN. Probably not so easy to provide though...
-
- Tony
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