Re: wget timeout option useless

2002-02-21 Thread Hrvoje Niksic 

Jamie Zawinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Please also set an exit alarm around your calls to connect() based
 on the -T option.

This is requested frequently.  I'll include it in the next release.

The reason why it's not already there is simply that I was lucky never
to be bitten by that problem.  For some reason, the systems I've
worked on have always either connected or timed out in reasonable
time.

wget timeout option useless

2002-02-19 Thread Jamie Zawinski 

The -T option seems to apply only to read() -- not to connect().
That's pretty worthless.

If I specify -t1 -t5, and the host is not responding (in connect())
then wget takes a full *15 minutes* to time out.  This makes it 
somewhat less than useful when you're trying to do smart things 
in shell scripts.

Please also set an exit alarm around your calls to connect() based
on the -T option.

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