libURL issues?

[Chipp Walters]

I use 5, but rarely has it ever gone past 3...I log all trys. BTW, this is
also a good way to 'punch' through some of the simpler proxy servers...

More on proxy servers later

Chipp

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com]On Behalf Of Richard K.
> Herz
> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 5:50 PM
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: RE: libURL issues?
>
>
> Chipp Walters wrote:
>
> > libURL thinks it's got the file, but it's not *the* file. Just
> a small bit
> > of nodata it thinks is the file. IMO, it has to do with latency. My DAD
> > has this problem with his ISP: starband.net (bigtime latency).
> >
> > In all my libURL downloads, I always test to make sure the file
> I *got* is
> > greater than some small amount (1000bytes) or else I repeat the
> download.
> > I try it pNumTrys times (a customProperty which is user settable).
>
> I've been encountering similar problems with downloading files, and these
> problems seem have appeared within the last few months (maybe a
> slowdown at
> my ISP?).  I have been repeating "get url" if "it" returned is
> empty. Max of
> three repeats seems to work most of the time.
>
> Chipp - what have you been using for your number of repeats?
>
> Rich Herz
> herz at ucsd.edu
> www.reactorlab.net
>
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