Hi Jimmie,
On 04 May 2011, at 00:53, Jimmie Houchin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am happily use ZincHttpComponents, specifically ZnClient for my application.
That's good to hear.
> I make a request to the Python server part of my application which retrieves
> data from another server. This at times takes longer than the provided
> "timeout" for a connection.
>
> I am currently doing, ZnClient get: url.
>
> How can I increase the "timeout" for retrieving my data.
I know it is a bit confusing, but there are different HTTP clients inside Zn.
ZnClient is the simplest one, it can only to one-shot requests, optionally with
basic authentication. It supports proxies.
ZnFixedClient is a special client to repeatedly talk to the same host:port and
reuse open connections, if possible. This makes it potentially faster.
ZnUserAgent and its subclass ZnHttpClient constitute a more sophisticated
client with a richer API. Of these, ZnHttpClient has a more builder like API.
They can follow redirects, allow the setting of timeout and other parameter and
can do digest authentication.
To make a long story short, to do a GET with a custom timeout you can do:
| settings |
settings := (ZnUserAgentSettings defaultSettingsClass new) timeout: 60.
ZnHttpClient new
settings: settings;
url: 'http://zn.stfx.eu/random/256';
get.
#get returns the response contents. If you want to access the actual ZnResponse
(to see if the request was actually successful) use #response after doing a
#get.
Let me know if this solves your problem or not. Zn is quite flexible, it all
depends on your needs.
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jimmie
HTH,
Sven
