CFNetwork HTTP timeout?

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CFNetwork HTTP timeout?

I am looking for a way to add a timeout to a CFHTTP request. It seems like there should be a feature of the CFHTTPMessage or the CFReadStream object, but I can't find it. Do I have to roll my own timer on the run loop or something? (if so, any code for this?)

Thanks!

Unless you have a special reason for using CFHTTPMessage I'd recommend using a higher level class such as ASIHTTPRequest which gives you added ease of use including timeouts.

Roger Nolan 2009-06-07 21:29:16

Roger, I did look @ ASIHTTPRequest and it looks great, except there's one thing I need it to do that it doesn't -- which is stream data from a CFReadStream object. (I could add a patch I s'pose...)

sehugg 2009-06-08 09:37:22

You should drop Ben at All seeing eye a line. He answers his mail and is a nice guy. If you have a patch, I'm sure he'd take it.

Roger Nolan 2009-06-09 08:59:02

ASIHTTPRequest does use an NSInputStream for the request body when posting files from an ASIFormDataRequest, and also whenever shouldStreamPostDataFromDisk is true.If your CFReadStream is reading from a file on disk, just use setPostBodyFilePath: and it'll do the rest. If not, it shouldn't be too tough to patch it to use your CFReadStream instead, but drop me a msg (my email is on the website) if you need a hand.

pokeb 2009-06-09 12:02:22

Thanks for the offer -- I ended up using NSURLConnection for everything except the POST, which I augmented with a NSTimer. Kind of a cop-out but I already had the code and some unit tests :P Next time I will start with ASIHTTPRequest in the first place!

sehugg 2009-06-10 15:31:03

Just FYI, I finally got around to extending ASIHTTPRequest and it was quite simply to make it take a stream instead of file or buffer. I used `socketpair()` to make a write stream that could be written from a different thread. Let me know if you are interested in code. Thanks :)

sehugg 2010-01-30 01:43:57

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