[Quickfix-developers] SendToTarget failure

[John H. <jr...@ya...>]

I have a test 
application which can send orders to an exchange.  If for some reason my session 
is disconnected and I issue a SendToTarget, it returns "false".  When I 
subsequently reconnect to the exchange, the order is sent out since it was 
queued in the fix space.
 
I would like to be 
able to trap this scenario so that if a user tries to send orders out and the 
session is disconnected, it will fail and then *not* send the order on 
subsequent reconnection.  My "nightmare" scenario is as follows:  User is 
auto-quoting a stock and the line drops.  hundreds of refreshed quotes are 
queued up somehow.  The line comes back and all those quotes are sent, but the 
market has moved and we get a ton of unwanted executions.
 
Is the best scenario 
to test the session status prior to calling SendToTarget?  Or is there a method 
I can call or a config option I can set so that any attempted SendToTargets 
which failed while disconnected are not then sent?  Can anybody recommend a 
"best practice" for this scenario?
 
I realize that I of 
course should not be sending any Cxl/Replaces until I get a live order ack, but 
even so the scenario could come to life if I am quoting multiple lines and the 
session drops - the initial quote on each line will still be queued up waiting 
to go out and will be sent regardless of where the market 
is.
 
Many thanks in 
advance for any suggestions,
 
   
John