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On 2/28/02 11:53 AM, "Colter Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I noticed that when Yahoo disconnects me, I got this in the console:
>>
>> yahoo_getdata: error reading data from server: Connection reset by peer
>> Error: Couldn't get more pager data.
>>
>> Does that help anyone?
>
> If I'm remembering my networking trivia correctly (and someone who knows
> more about network topology correct me if I'm wrong) "Connection reset by
> peer" means that an external force -- something between the server and the
> client -- has caused the connection to close, and there's not much we can do
> about that. Except detect it and try to automatically reconnect.
>
> Am I way off base here?
I have seen this also. I'm no expert on the Yahoo protocol, but connection
reset by peer often means the server decided to disconnect you for some
reason. Possibilities include: you were inactive for too long so you hit an
idle timeout, or you sent a malformed packet and they decided to close the
connection and bail out.
If it's the first case, it's probably not too hard to get Fire to send some
kind of ping packet to Yahoo periodically to keep the connection going. The
second one is a little harder to track down but one approach is to log all
the information being sent to Yahoo and take a look at what happened right
before the disconnection if anything.
-Jason
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