Hi,
I am working with the RCurl package and I am using the curlPerform function for an soap-query. The problem is that the code is usually working well, but sometimes the connection gets lost. So I wrote a while-loop to repeat the query if anything might happened so that the same query runs again, but if the query-faults it takes a very long time for the repetition. My question is if there is any possibility to force a time out for the curlPerform function or something like that? Thanks! run = 1 i=0 while(run==1) { i=i+1 try ( run <- curlPerform(url = "http://search.webofknowledge.com/esti/wokmws/ws/WokSearchLite.cgi", httpheader=c("Accept-Encoding"="gzip,deflate","Content-Type"="text/xml;charset=UTF-8",'SOAPAction'='""', "Cookie"=paste('SID="',s_session,'"',sep=""),"Content-Length"=paste(nchar(s_body)),"Host"="search.webofknowledge.com","Connection"="Keep-Alive","User-Agent"="Apache-HttpClient/4.1.1 (java 1.5)"), postfields=s_body, writefunction = h$update ,verbose = TRUE) ,TRUE) print(i) } [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.