[plug] TCP timeout values - advice appreciated

[John Summerfield]

> Having just written something sort of like a web robot. I've found,
> predictably, that some sites just don't respond quickly (and some don't
> respond at all !).  The IP-chains documentation mentions changing the TCP
> timeout from 15 minutes (the default), and I was looking for experiences
> from anyone in plug-land whose done it.
> 
> Did it help?  Or not?  Did it make a difference?

Why not tune your program? Other programs have their onw timeouts, some 
(such as wget and perl's ftp module) are configurable.

Changing the a value for the system to tune a program is, in general, not 
the right thing.

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John Summerfield
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