how to set timeout property in symbian HTTP framework?

[bharats]

Hi all,

I am facing an issue which is... when ever I am sending request to server sometimes it takes too much time to get the complete response from server. So in this case I want to show "connection time out" dialog to user.

Is there any property to set for RHTTPTransaction or RHttpSession so that after that specific time interval i will get a callback inside MHFRunL with request/connection timeout code. OR is there any other way to handle this case?


Any help in this regard is highly appreciated.

regards,
Bharat

[kamalakshan]

hi,

you can handle based on the status codes. If your request was successful you will receive 200 Ok or else depending upon the status code handle the error.

[bharats]

Hi,

Yes that is default behavior. But i want to control(set) the timeout property so that i will receive that code(408) if my client will not get the response within that time frame and i will show a dialog to user for that time out.
I want what is the way to set this time out property.

regards,
Bharat

[kamalakshan]

Hi,

Any client goes through the following cycle:

* Obtain an IP address
* Open an IP socket connection to that IP address.
* Write an HTTP data stream through that socket.
* Receive an HTTP data stream back from your Web server in response.

Now this data stream contains status codes whose values are determined by the HTTP protocol. After parsing this you are getting status code 408.

So the response is coming from the server. And hence AFAIK the timeout is also set from the server side.

The reason you are getting this error might be more due to the workload on your Web server being very high.


This error occurs in the final step above when the client receives an HTTP status code that it recognises as '408'.

[WinHw]

Hi, you can try to using a timer and set the timer expired in how many second, then when the timer is expired (e.g. after 300 seconds) then cancel the HTTP transaction.

Something like this :
...
IssueHTTPPost();
iTimer->Start(300);
...

void eTimerExpired()
{
CancelHTTP();
}