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Chad_Roberts_21
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Aug 16, 2006

Re-route on timeout

I found previous threads that discussed reacting to timeouts in various ways, but all the ones I found were from early 2005 and determined that it could not yet be done. With much time having passed, ...
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Aug 17, 2006
That's a good question, and I suppose that's going to take some thought to define, but for the sake of having some kind of protection, let's just say for a timeout waiting for response from the server in question. We have circumstances here where a port will be open and pass the initial "GET /" but fail to respond when certain paths are requested, for example. Is it possible to monitor whether a user's request goes unanswered and then retry with another pool or something?