- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 12:07:52 -0400
- To: www-lib@w3.org
- To: Michael Saunders <michael@amtec.com>
Michael Saunders wrote: > I have experience some pretty large obsticles attempting to use this > library which has been quite disappointing. I am not sure if it is > the way in which I am using it or if it really is buggy. I discovered > the following problems: > > 1) Exiting the event loop after interrupting a transfer makes > the library unusable upon subsequent transfers using the > default event loop in HTEvtLst.c. I followed the documentation > and called the HTHost_killPipe as instructed but it the library > doesn't seem to clean up correctly. Subsequent transfers > using HTLoadToFile stop immediately due to some read error > which causes the library to kill the pipe. Do you have a libwww trace of this? > 2) I had to make code modifications to the HTEventList_loop function > to make sure that the HTEndLoop flag was reset at all exit > points in the function. Do you have a diff for this so that we can get it in? > 3) I tried reinitializing the library and cleaning it up completely > before and after each request but I discovered that if perform > several subsequent download and uploads using HTLoadToFile and > HTPutDocumentAnchor the library crashes. That is pretty much what the web commander does - do you have some traces of this too? -- Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, <frystyk@w3.org> World Wide Web Consortium, MIT/LCS NE43-356 545 Technology Square, Cambridge MA 02139, USA
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