[muscle] Re: timing out a connection attempt

> How should I handle connection timeouts=3F
> 
> When I use the MessageTransceiverThread's AddNewConnectSession method in my
> client it hangs when it can't connect to the server.

Do you mean that the AddNewConnectSession() method doesn't return, or that it
does return but you don't get any connection-completed or connection-failed 
events=3F
(I'll assume the latter below)

> There would be nice to have a timeout possibility in the
> AddNewConnectSession method call, i.e. the last argument is a "number of
> milliseconds before this connection attempt is considered timed out". What
> do you guys think=3F Or is there another way to achieve the same effect=3F

As Monni mentioned, the easiest way is to set a timer, and if the timer times 
out
before you get a connected-event, you can Reset() the MessageTransceiverThread
and get rid of it.  Qt's QTimer class works well for this, or if you aren't 
using Qt,
you could obtain a similar effect by subclassing ThreadWorkerSession and 
overridding
GetPulseTime(), Pulse() and AsyncConnectCompleted() to cause the session to 
self-destruct if too much time passes before the connect succeeds.

Jeremy

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