[cpp-netlib-devel] HTTP Timeouts

[Matt T. <mat...@gm...>]

Hello folks,

What's the recommended way to handle HTTP timeouts with cpp-netlib?
Specifically I want to be able to set a timeout (to say, 300ms) and
then have the library indicate (probably throw an exception) when the
request takes longer than the timeout.

I can see that there's a connection_timeout
(network/protocol/http/errors.hpp) exception defined but it appears to
be unused.

Now I could start a thread, timed_join it etc but that's pretty
heavyweight and ugly.

We could use a deadline_timer but, externally, we don't have access to
the io_service (so we'd need to push the timeout handline into the
library).  In fact this solution is discussed in a boost forum thread
started by our own Dean:

  http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2007/04/120290.php

Looks remarkably similar to what we require!  :)

So.....has anyone done this before?  Shall I roll up my sleeves and
start coding a solution into cpp-netlib or has someone already begun?

Thanks,
Matt