Re: [Gaim-devel] Autoreconnect plugin (cvs)

[Luke S. <lsc...@us...>]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 05:09:53PM +0000, Adam Feakin wrote:
> I have found out now why I thought the autoreconnect plugin was doing
> nothing somtimes, the interval is being set to 1024000ms (about 17mins
> if my maths is right).  So, you have to wait for ages before it attempts
> to signon againt - any reason for the incredibly long delay?

the autorecon plugin exponentially grows in delay time. it starts at an 
immediate attempt, then 17 seconds delay, doubling each time, to a max of 
just over once per half hour or so. the reason for this is that if your 
connection were to be non-existant for an extended period of time, or worse, 
if it were only _nearly_ non-existant, as has often happened to me on both 
dialup and with verizon dsl, you can max out your login attempts easily if 
the growning delay were not present. 


> 
> I have also noticed that, when the modem gets disconnected, yahoo and msn
> disconnect almost instantly - but ICQ/AOL still think they are connected
> for another half an hour or so after disconnection.

oscar does not handle unexpected disconnects well. yahoo and msn require 
periodic messages to and from the server to remain connected and so detect 
the disconnect quickly, but oscar is built to allow extended periods with no 
interchange between server and client, and so takes far longer to detect 
the lack of connection.

luke

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