Hello.

I have a multithreaded application, that user 3rd party API (Amazon Glacier actually). It uploads data in several streams, using POST/PUT requests and LWP::UserAgent.

Problem is that if I have many concurrent uploads (which flood a network), I am getting HTTP 408.

1) HTTP 408 comes from server, it's not internal response of LWP::UserAgent - I see server headers, which LWP can't reproduce.

2) If I use computer with higher bandwidth available, I can have more concurrent threads without 408

3) Other users of my software experience that too

4) Other users of this API experience that too. (they use different implementation, I know one Java and one is Python)

Thus I consider that:

a) it's not server side limit for connections per IP.

b) it's server side setup, probably with socket timeout set, global for Amazon Glacier API.

What I wan't to do:

I wan't somehow optimize LWP::UserAgent setup to handle this situation more graceful.

For example I found that it flushes buffers not optimal way:

http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.libwww/2005/12/msg6481.html

Can someone advice something ? What is more important here to avoid 408 server timeouts ?

I can consider using something other, than LWP, even own socket HTTP implementation.

In reply to LWP client, socket, timeout on server side. by vsespb

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