On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:15:39 +0100, Edi Weitz edi@agharta.de wrote:
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:39:40 +0100, "Hans Hübner" hans@huebner.org wrote:
Does anyone here have sentiments regarding WITH-TIMEOUT? If not, I'd propose that WITH-TIMEOUT be totally removed from Hunchentoot.
Not that I'm totally against it, but what's the reason? Right now, I'm seeing it as a kind of stopgap solution for Lisps without stream timeouts. If you don't have /any/ timeouts, you're pretty prone to DoS attacks, aren't you?
Although, having thought about this for the duration of another cigarette, I tend to think that it's probably not so elegant and clear to mix stream timeout mechanisms and "other" timeouts. Yeah, maybe we should get rid of this and rely on the streams to take care of that. Might also increase pressure on the implementations which don't have it yet.