I am trying to make the .sources downloads more stable and give proper feedback. I ran into the following problem with Zinc: | client | (client := ZnClient new) numberOfRetries: 1; timeout: 5; ifFail: [ :e | "ignore" ] url: 'http://an.url.that.does.not.exists.ch/foo'; downloadTo: '.' asFileReference; close Running this code hangs the image indefinitely (so far > 2min). Actually I would like to put #numberOfRetries to 0, since I want to fail as soon as possible during startup. However putting that the retry count to 0 yields an Exception caused by #downloadTo: ZnClient(Object)>>error: "Request not yet executed" ZnClient>>isSuccess ZnClient>>downloadTo: If I omit the #ifFail: block I get a warning about the wrong url, which is of course not what I want during startup? Is this a Zinc bug?