[DUG] Indy ConnectTimeout/ReadTimeout recomendations

[Jolyon Smith]

The question is how quickly the web site is likely to respond, not how fat
your pipe connecting to it is.  3 seconds could easily be nowhere near long
enough if the server is under heavy load.

 

You say you don't want to "delay the routine" if the web site is down, but
you presumably don't wish to abort the routine just because the web site is
a bit slow to respond.

 

Depending on what the potentially-delayed-routine in question is doing,
perhaps you could do your URL check in a background thread ?

 

 

From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of Ross Levis
Sent: Monday, 13 December 2010 16:19
To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
Subject: [DUG] Indy ConnectTimeout/ReadTimeout recomendations

 

I'm after minimum recommendations for ConnectTimeout and ReadTimeout for
connecting to an HTTP URL.  Assuming a DSL internet connection, could these
be say 3 seconds each and not likely to abort too early in most cases?

 

I'm executing HTTP.Head to determine if a URL is valid but I don't want to
delay the routine too much if the website is down.

 

Thanks.

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