st_connect timeout problem

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Hello,

I am writing an application that does the following:

every minute:

- read a list of websites/URLs
- connect to each of them
- retrieve some info from them
- close connection

I am using st-1.4 compiled with USE_POLL on redhat
linux 9 on i386.

The problem: one of the sites in the list is
firewalled/unreachable, and that's why I use a timeout
parameter of 50 seconds to st_connect.

Before I used this parameter, by program hang for
4 minutes on that particular site before finishing
the main loop.

But since I added the timeout parameter another strange
thing happened: everything works but after 4 iterations
of the main loop (so 4 minutes) most connections
suddenly get ETIME on st_connect, and after that
I have an irregular pattern of thing going right
and things going wrong.

Does this ring a bell with anyone? Or should I
post this to -devel?

Thanks,
Ron Arts

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