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Re: Setup.exe: FTP Control Timeout While Choosing Packages


On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 09:27:42AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>Dario,
>
>Naturally. Usually one opens a separate connection for each resource to be 
>retrieved via HTTP. Only somewhat recently (using the HTTP 1.1 protocol 
>revision) has it been possible to even try to get multiple resources via a 
>single HTTP connection.
>
>I agree with the work-around, and now that I've noticed the problem, I do 
>the same.

I've noticed the same thing.  It seems like setup.exe should be able to detect
when the connection has been terminated and try to reconnect.  At the very
least, it could give an intelligible error message when something like this
occurs.

I bet it wouldn't be too hard to come up with a patch to do this...

cgf

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