Re: Asynch wininet - Threaded or not?

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Subject Author Date Re: Asynch wininet - Threaded or not? Fred 02-02-2006  Re: Asynch wininet - Threaded or not? Fred 02-03-2006

Posted by Fred on February 2, 2006, 2:45 pm Please log in for more thread options show/hide quoted text > Never mind, you are referring to this, I think: > BUG: InternetSetOption Does Not Set Timeout Values > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/176420/EN-US/ > Isn't the default timeout acceptable? This has never been an issue for me. > Paul Hi Paul. (I've just made another couple of posts discussing it before this one of yours came through.) Nope its not. Mine is a "real-time" application" If the thread hangs more than a second or two waiting for a response it's useless. Also does the default timeout work OK? I've had problems with threads hanging indefinitely. Posted by Fred on February 3, 2006, 7:13 am Please log in for more thread options show/hide quoted text > I don't really know much about timeout behaviour. > I have seen a DNS timeout within a few seconds (but more than two). > I haven't seen an HTTP timeout. Are the web servers you're connecting to > really unreliable or something? It's not that they are particularly unreliable - I need "real time" response. The real issue is not around connecting (I suppose) but around reading the servers response. If the data is not downloaded "immediately" then it is out of date and so useless. On my other app using synch wininet and threads the threads seem to hang - never timeout - if the site is slow to respond for that request - of course there could be other issues causing this as its really hard to pin down. Similar Threads Posted Asynch wininet - Threaded or not? February 1, 2006, 9:51 am SSL with WinINet April 16, 2008, 4:30 pm WinInet problem August 1, 2005, 1:44 am Re: Get SEC_E_SECPKG_NOT_FOUND in WinINet until IE has been started March 10, 2005, 2:38 pm Can wininet functions trigger CM to auto-establish a GPRS connecti June 11, 2005, 10:03 pm