Re: TIdHTTP's timeout-settings seem not to work as intended

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From: MR
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 03:05

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>> I'm setting a TIdHTTP's ConnectTimeout and ReadTimeout properties
>> to a value about 200ms.
>
>200ms is fine for a ReadTimeout, but that is generally too small for a
>ConnectTimeout, especially if a DNS query has to be performed.  There are no
>DNS timeouts available, and network latency can cause slow connections.

Thank you. 

Because I suppose this connection-loose will not occur to often it's
not so problematic, if the application is blocked for about 1/4 minute
in this case.  

In the other cases I tried (e.g. giving an html-.address which does
not exist it times-out like intended...

Thanks,

Michael

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