Libwww Basic Timers
The Timer class handles timer for libwww and the application. This works
exactly as in X where you create a timer object with a callback function
and a timeout. The callback will be called every time the timer expires.
There are several timeouts that can be set in libwww:
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The time we keep an idle persistent connection open. Here there are in fact
two mechanisms depending on whether you use blocking or non-blocking sockets.
The default is 60 secs. The timers can be accessed using the
functions defined in the HTHost
object
-
The idle time we want to wait when receiving a response from a server, that
is, if it doesn't send anything in a number of secs. The default here is
no timeout. It can be accessed
in th HTHost obejct as well.
-
The timeout before we flush pending requests in a pipeline, the default here
is 30 ms. It is also accessed in
the HTHost object
-
The timeout before we start sending the body of a PUT or
POST request. Normally we send the Expect: 100-continue
header field but if the server doesn't send back a 100 Continue
code then we upload the body anyway. The default is 2 secs and can be accessed
in the HTTP module.
Registrering
and deleting Timers
Henrik Frystyk Nielsen,
@(#) $Id: Timers.html,v 1.2 1998/12/05 17:50:54 frystyk Exp $