[99s-extend] timeout in cowboy loop handler

[Loïc Hoguin]

Yep. And it will also disconnect if the client sends too much. It has to 
disconnect and reconnect eventually, there's no way around it.

On 10/16/2013 05:03 AM, akonsu wrote:
> so it will disconnect if the client only listens and sends nothing to
> the socket, correct?
>
>
> 2013/10/15 Loïc Hoguin <essen at ninenines.eu <mailto:essen at ninenines.eu>>
>
>     The socket connected to the client.
>
>     TCP isn't perfect, there is no way to be 100% sure the client is
>     still connected, hence the timeout. If the client is still up you
>     should make it reconnect.
>
>
>     On 10/16/2013 04:55 AM, akonsu wrote:
>
>         Hello,
>
>         the documentation for `init` at
>         http://ninenines.eu/docs/en/__cowboy/HEAD/manual/cowboy___loop_handler
>         <http://ninenines.eu/docs/en/cowboy/HEAD/manual/cowboy_loop_handler>
>         says:
>
>         The receive loop will run for a duration of up to Timeout
>         milliseconds
>         after it last received data from the socket, at which point it
>         will stop
>         and send a 204 No Content reply.
>
>         What socket does it refer to? I had an impression that the loop
>         handles
>         erlang messages. Do these messages come through a socket (sorry
>         about a
>         trivial question, but I am new to erlang), and this is the
>         socket that
>         the docs talk about?
>
>         The reason why I am asking is because I used to have a Timeout
>         of 60000,
>         and even though messages kept coming non stop, it still kept
>         disconnecting after a minute, until I set Timeout to infinity.
>
>         thanks
>         Konstantin
>
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