Re: [htdig] HtDig / https / connection down / redirect / applets

[Rob K. <Rob...@jp...>]

Gilles Detillieux wrote:

> According to Rob Kremer:
> 
>>Changing the time-out valued fixed the problem.  Thanks!
>>
>>Jim Cole wrote:
>>
>>>Rob Kremer's bits of Thu, 1 Aug 2002 translated to:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>First issue, I thought there was a problem getting files with applets.  What I
>>>>found out is that the web page it is trying to dig has so many URLs in it that
>>>>it can't get through all of them in 30 seconds, if I take out half of the URLS,
>>>>then it can.  This page is the main page of our web site, and really needs to be
>>>>indexed, is there someway I can extend the time-out value?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Have you tried http://www.htdig.org/dev/htdig-3.2/attrs.html#timeout
>>>
> 
> Interesting.  I thought the timeout was for when it opens the connection
> initially, or for each individual read request.  I.e., if it gets no
> response at all for that amount of time, it should abort.  It should not
> be aborting simply because the whole file takes longer than 30 seconds
> to fetch, as long as it's getting _something_ back from the server during
> those 30 seconds.  This may be a bug.
> 
> 
I thought the same thing.  When digging a non-SSL server, I have large files that 

take over 30 seconds and it does not drop the connection for them.  Only for 

SSL servers.


I think there is also a bug in the redirection for SSL, I am going to try track 
it down today.


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