Hi Jimmie, On 04 May 2011, at 00:53, Jimmie Houchin wrote:
Hello,
I am happily use ZincHttpComponents, specifically ZnClient for my application.
That's good to hear.
I make a request to the Python server part of my application which retrieves data from another server. This at times takes longer than the provided "timeout" for a connection.
I am currently doing, ZnClient get: url.
How can I increase the "timeout" for retrieving my data.
I know it is a bit confusing, but there are different HTTP clients inside Zn. ZnClient is the simplest one, it can only to one-shot requests, optionally with basic authentication. It supports proxies. ZnFixedClient is a special client to repeatedly talk to the same host:port and reuse open connections, if possible. This makes it potentially faster. ZnUserAgent and its subclass ZnHttpClient constitute a more sophisticated client with a richer API. Of these, ZnHttpClient has a more builder like API. They can follow redirects, allow the setting of timeout and other parameter and can do digest authentication. To make a long story short, to do a GET with a custom timeout you can do: | settings | settings := (ZnUserAgentSettings defaultSettingsClass new) timeout: 60. ZnHttpClient new settings: settings; url: 'http://zn.stfx.eu/random/256'; get. #get returns the response contents. If you want to access the actual ZnResponse (to see if the request was actually successful) use #response after doing a #get. Let me know if this solves your problem or not. Zn is quite flexible, it all depends on your needs.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Jimmie
HTH, Sven