Re: AppleScript SOAP request failures
Re: AppleScript SOAP request failures
- Subject: Re: AppleScript SOAP request failures
- From: Gary Lists <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 18:49:55 -0500
- Http: //bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/python/Sounds/HolyGrail.wav/taunt.wav
On or about 11/24/03 4:33 PM, David Barnes wrote:
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In developing a small client to a SOAP web service using AppleScript,
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I have run into a reproducible defect wherein repeated calls to a
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service ultimately result in a call that hangs.
Well, yeah. Ping a server 500 times and see if you get some drop-outs. It
seems almost intuitive to expect that some round-trips will get interrupted.
In fact, the entire internet concept is built around that very idea.
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I hope someone else has seen this before and knows a solution
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or at least a workaround.
Yes, trap the drop-out and send the request again, like other software does.
Haven't you ever loaded a web page, to find that one small .gif didn't load,
but that you could refresh the browser or load the image on a second
attempt?
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I am now sure it is a serious bug indeed
Hmm. I don't know about "sure" or "serious bug", of even a "defect". Is
there a real point in repeating a SOAP call 20 times in a loop, as per your
example?
Maybe I am missing the gravity of the issue for you, but it seems almost
elementary that you would simply trap for dropped calls and resend them --
like other internet software.
Just some thoughts.
--
Gary
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