Re: [Boost-users] Networking TS + Beast, NEW Tutorials, Read this to learn std::net !!!

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Networking TS + Beast, NEW Tutorials, Read this to learn std::net !!!
From: james (dirtydroog_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-03-15 11:13:55

On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 9:45 AM Cristian Morales Vega via Boost-users <
boost-users_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 at 16:49, Vinnie Falco via Boost-users
> <boost-users_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > There was a recent paper in Kona, P1269R0 ("Three Years with the
> > Networking TS")  about difficulty of implementing timeouts. To address
> > this, Beast now has a stream class which implements configurable
> > timeouts for you, and callers no longer have to fiddle with timers
> > manually anymore. Everything "Just Works." It achieves the P1269R0
> > author's goal of having timeouts "built-in to asynchronous
> > operations", but in a way that fits in with the design of the TS:
> >
> > <
> https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/master/libs/beast/doc/html/beast/using_io/timeouts.html
> >
>
> I have not used the synchronous API at all. But section 3.1 of P1269R0
> seems to make a good point about the lack of timeouts in synchronous
> calls, doesn't it?
> beast::basic_stream makes using timeouts in the async API way simpler,
> but is the sync API really basically unusable because of the lack of
> timeouts thing?
>

Yes, for anything other than a toytown application at least.