Speaking of sockets...

[Bob Sneidar]

Oh good to know. However, I am getting less than a second response time for open socket, and I wouldn’t want to set a timeout that low for SQL. 

Bob S


> On Jan 20, 2015, at 19:04 , Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> I’ve mentioned in the past that if I am unable to connect to a mySQL
>> server (such as going to a location with my laptop and finding their
>> firewall blocks port 3306) it takes close to a minute for LC to release and
>> tell me it cannot connect. During that time LC is completely unresponsive.
>> I needed a way to check first if I can make that connection.
> 
> 
> OTOH, mySQL is the only db for which revOpenDataBase() allows a timeout to
> be specified . . .
> 
> 
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