Pendingmessages

[Richard Gaskin]

Richard Miller wrote:

 >>> We discovered that the pending messages were the source of our file
 >>> transferring problem. I don't know what the doc's say or when these
 >>> messages are supposed to be sent, but I do know they greatly
 >>> effected our file transferring routine, interrupting it at seemingly
 >>> random times. When we paused them (using a variation on Key Ray's
 >>> suggestion), the transfer process began working reliably. Perhaps
 >>> this is a fault in the pending messages system that should be looked
 >>> into.
 >>
 >> Possibly, or the root cause may lie with libURL, or with the way
 >> libURL is used.
 >>
 >> While some libURL calls are blocking, most are asynchronous. If you
 >> were using any of the non-blocking calls all bets are off with
 >> regard to pendingMessages, since messages from libURL may easily
 >> become interleaved with your own.
 >
 > Yes.... that was exactly it. We were using a non-blocking transfer,
 > and pending messages did interfere with it.

There's a blocking form for uploading and downloading available in 
libURL, and in the last several versions includes callbacks so one can 
update a progress indicator or do other minor housekeeping.  Would that 
help your situation?

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