#190 Snipe key times out

[Jan Starzynski]

Hello,

after setting a snipe the snipe key is obtained setting the
"pre-bid". Until the "real-bid" is set a pretty long time may pass.
In that time the snipe key may become invalid so the bid fails
with some error message. This "item" is in both the stable and
the current release of bidwatcher.

I built a workaround for this: in bidwatcher.cpp I inserted a call
to getkey() as the first thing in the function bid() to obtain a new,
valid snipe key. So the beginning of that function looks like:

int auctioninfo::bid(bool windows) {
getkey(snipeAmount, snipeQty);
...

This works fine but I'm not sure if this is the best way to solve the
problem. It might be better to call getkey() from the timer a little
time before the call to bid().

By the way: I'm bidding from Germany and everything works fine
with bidwatcher after the patch.

[Kevin Dwyer]

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I've actually thought about doing that exact same thing, but
I had never heard of it happening until now. I think it's
probably an OK fix, but that it should happen earlier the
process. Consider a snipe that is going to happen within 5
seconds of the auction close. The key refresh could hurt
things.

I'll have to think about some ways to handle this.

Thanks.

[Kevin Dwyer]

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We believe this issue is fixed in the latest release. Please
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