On May 29, 2010, at 10:12 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:

> 
> On May 29, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Nava Carmon wrote:
> 
>> When I initialize the NSURLConnection I define a timeout in my 
>> NSURLMutableRequest in order not to stuck the GUI and let the user to work 
>> with application. On timeout I get didFailWithError in 
>> NSURLConnectionDelegate and show a message that there was not response from 
>> the server and the user can continue working.
> 
> If you’re running the NSURLConnection asynchronously (which I think you are, 
> since you use a delegate), you can already unblock the UI and let the user 
> continue to work. That’s a better design than waiting until the connection 
> finishes, especially in a mobile app. (For example, my Twitter client returns 
> to the timeline as soon as I press the Post button, and sends the post to the 
> Twitter servers in the background.)

Yes, you're right, but the point is that it's a "GET" method and the user has 
to wait till he sees the desired data. I show kind of activity indicator, till 
it loads and parses. It's a customer requirement.

> 
>> The matter is that the connection or underlying socket somehow is preserved 
>> and the connection with the server is not closed. So when I try to get 
>> another url from the same server I can't reach it since the server is still 
>> stuck with the previous problematic request! 
> 
> Hm. It’s true that CFNetwork uses HTTP keep-alive mode, where it can reuse a 
> socket for multiple requests. But I don’t think it’ll send a second request 
> on the same socket until the previous one is complete. (I.e. I don’t believe 
> it supports pipelining.) Instead it should be opening a new socket while the 
> first one is busy, up to a max of I think 4 sockets per host.
> 
> I don’t know if there’s any way, using public API, to disable keep-alive. 
> It’s possible using a lower-level API like CFStream would let you get around 
> this. I would ask on the macnetworkprog list. (And make sure to mention that 
> this is on iPhone, as the APIs aren’t exactly the same as on Mac.)

May be I should try some other API to get these xml files? detaching a thread 
and init a parser with URL? Would it be better approach in this case?

Nava Carmon
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