Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] Exception of http client connection without network

[Steve O. <st...@so...>]

----- "Dean Michael Berris" <mik...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi Steve,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Steve Obbayi <st...@so...>
> wrote:
> > Hi Dean, I am now back, still jet lagged :)
> 
> Great, I hope you had a good vacation. :)
> 
> > Anyway as I was re-familiarizing myself with the code I noticed that
> if the user has no
> > network and tries to use the http client they get an exception and
> the http client quits.
> >
> 
> This is by design -- all operations with the synchronous client (like
> get, post, put, head, delete_) all throw in case something goes wrong
> at any stage of the process (except when reading, an eof causes the
> read from the socket to terminate under normal circumstances).
> 
> With the asynchronous client, when you try to use any of the wrappers,
> and there was something wrong in the process of getting the response,
> it will throw the error that is associated with the error_code
> received.
> 
> > I found this out when looking into how to implement the retry on
> connection failure feature.
> >
> > At this point I have not gone further to root out the cause because
> a question arose in the process. Should the http client be implemented
> with all client connections being made under a try/catch block? Or
> should the http client handle these kind of situations internally?  Or
> is this a bug in the http client.
> >
> 
> The client is designed to throw when operations are performed, this is
> so that the user of the client can do what they deem necessary in
> situations where the client encounters an exceptional condition --
> network errors are considered exceptional conditions. ;)
> 
> > I am using version 0.8 with visual C++ 2010.
> >
> 
> You will get this no matter what compiler you use. ;)
> 
> Also, if you are going to work on anything in cpp-netlib, please work
> against the latest development branch. Patches submitted against 0.8
> will pretty much be useless with the amount of changes that have
> happened between 0.8 and 0.9-devel. :D
> 
> HTH
> 
> --
> Dean Michael Berris
> deanberris.com
> 

Okay thanks, for confirming this to me.

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