Matthias, I'll try it. Thanks so much for your help. Bill William A. Prothero, PhD Prof Emeritus, Dept of Earth Science University of California, Santa Barbara
> On Jul 22, 2023, at 4:32 AM, matthias rebbe via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Hello Bill, > > since V8 or so tsNET external is included in any commercial/business license. > Even put URL "ftp: or http: will be executed with tsNET by liburl. > > So in case you did not manually disabletsNET for your app, you could use > tsNetSetTimeouts to set timeout values. > By default tsNET does not limit the time a request could take and that might > be the reason why the put URL takes forever. > > The Syntax looks like this > tsNetSetTimeouts pDnsCacheTimeout, pRequestTimeoutMS, pConnectTimeoutMS, > pAcceptTimeoutMS, pLowSpeedTime, pLowSpeedLimit > > The second parameter is responsible for the request timeout and has to be set > in milliseconds. > > So for example > > tsNetSetTimeouts 30, 33000, 300000, 60000, 30, 1000 > > would set the request timeout to 33 seconds. The other values in my example > are the default values. > > After the timeout the script continues and you could check if the put command > returned the expected value. > > > > Regards, > Matthias > > > >> Am 22.07.2023 um 02:02 schrieb prothero--- via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: >> >> Folks: >> Sorry for the trivial question, but.. >> I have an app on my iphone that I am updating from a several years old app >> the previously worked on an older version of livecode. It needs to access a >> mysql database on the internet. It works fine when there is internet >> service. >> >> I test access by downloading a file with a simple text code. If there code >> is returned in the message, I continue accessing the database. However, when >> there is no internet, the "put URL” command seems to hang forever. I’ve >> looked for a way to set the timeout for an internet command, but…. can’t,. >> >> Could you direct me to a simple explanation about how to set a reasonable >> internet not connected message? >> >> Thanks, >> Bill >> put "https://"&theURL&"/test.html"; into theURL >> >> put URL theURL into tOutput —if the request times out, the output is not >> received. >> >> if tOutput contains "AB7699HEYIMHERE” then —code received, internet access >> is successful >> >> return true >> >> else >> >> return false >> >> end if >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
