Question re download timeout setting

[William Prothero]

Matthias,
I'll try it.
Thanks so much for your help.
Bill

William A. Prothero, PhD
Prof Emeritus, Dept of Earth Science
University of California, Santa Barbara

> On Jul 22, 2023, at 4:32 AM, matthias rebbe via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello Bill,
> 
> since V8 or so tsNET external is included in any commercial/business license.
> Even put URL "ftp: or http:  will be executed with tsNET by liburl.
> 
> So in case you did not manually disabletsNET for your app, you could use   tsNetSetTimeouts to set timeout values.
> By default tsNET does not limit the time a request could take and that might be the reason why the put URL takes forever.
> 
> The Syntax looks like this
> tsNetSetTimeouts pDnsCacheTimeout, pRequestTimeoutMS, pConnectTimeoutMS, pAcceptTimeoutMS, pLowSpeedTime, pLowSpeedLimit
> 
> The second parameter is responsible for the request timeout and has to be set in milliseconds.
> 
> So for example
> 
> tsNetSetTimeouts 30, 33000, 300000, 60000, 30, 1000
> 
> would set the request timeout to 33 seconds. The other values in my example are the default values.
> 
> After the timeout the script continues and you could check if the put command returned the expected value.
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Matthias
> 
> 
> 
>> Am 22.07.2023 um 02:02 schrieb prothero--- via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>> 
>> Folks:
>> Sorry for the trivial question, but..
>> I have an app on my iphone that I am updating from a several years old app the previously worked on an older version of livecode. It needs to access a mysql database on the internet. It works fine when there is internet service. 
>> 
>> I test access by downloading a file with a simple text code. If there code is returned in the message, I continue accessing the database. However, when there is no internet, the "put URL” command seems to hang forever. I’ve looked for a way to set the timeout for an internet command, but…. can’t,.
>> 
>> Could you direct me to a simple explanation about how to set a reasonable internet not connected message?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Bill
>> put "https://"&theURL&"/test.html" into theURL
>> 
>> put URL theURL into tOutput    —if the request times out, the output is not received.
>> 
>> if tOutput contains "AB7699HEYIMHERE” then   —code received, internet access is successful
>> 
>> return true
>> 
>> else
>> 
>> return false
>> 
>> end if
>> 
>> 
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