czechboy0
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8 years ago Actually I think we should add this to all sockets, both UDP and TCP. Even with TCP, you might send a request, the server crashes and you're left hanging. We should time out here as well after a predefined time.
When the client waited a reasonable amount of time to get a response from the server the client should be notified by a time-out signal and have the option to act on that event (e.g. retransmission or throwing an error). The amount of time before a time-out happens should be configurable because it will vary depending on what the server side does and be set to a reasonable default value, e.g. 2 seconds.