Re: Message timeouts?

"William J. Mills" <[email protected]> Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:06:20 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.network.beep.beepcore.c.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
An out of sequence reply will cause an error in the core, I think.

Beyond that, no... there is not a mechanism for timeout.  That's 
left to the application level to deal with (profile).

-bill


On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 06:50:07PM +0800, Andy Dent wrote:
> Does beepcore-c handle the issue of message timeouts, ie: if a client 
> receiving regular messages has stopped responding or if a sloppily 
> written client never responds?
> 
> I can't find any discussion of it other than a message by Helen Ryan 
> back in January which didn't seem to get a response
> 
> "
> >What if the server just doesn't reply, e.g. due to programming error, etc?
> >  This would also cause beepng to hang forever.  Where the client is part of a
> >  larger system or long-running program, this can be a problem.  Should there
> >  not be some kind of timeout?  Is this intentional in the BEEP protocol or
> >  just an implementation issue?
> "
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