Re: WebRequest.Timeout bugs?

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From: Jon Skeet [C# MVP] (skeet_at_pobox.com)
Date: 08/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:14:35 +0100

David D Webb <spivey@nospam.post.com> wrote:
> I've found that if the server accepts the request, then sends back some
> data, but never completes the response, the timeout MAY not trigger
> properly. You may need to switch to asynchronous requests for tighter
> control over the process.

Oh joy :(

Given that this only happens in very occasional situations (without the
connection itself going away, which I'll test but which I suspect is
enough to trigger the web request to complete with an error) I might
just detect it with my own timer which then triggers a message box
telling the user that the app will restart. Not pleasant, but of course
I'm hoping this will never happen in practice.

Next thing to look up is how to kill the process when there are hung
threads. Time to look on opennetcf.org... 

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