Comments on: How-To: In-App Announcement System http://makeshiftgames.com/2009/12/04/in-app-announcements/ What Fun! Sun, 11 Jul 2010 08:29:20 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: James http://makeshiftgames.com/2009/12/04/in-app-announcements/comment-page-1/#comment-457 James Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:42:45 +0000 http://makeshiftgames.com/?p=391#comment-457 That's a good point. I wasn't aware of that fact. I think we'll be ok for now since we have connection checks that run before this to see if the user can reach our server. That’s a good point. I wasn’t aware of that fact. I think we’ll be ok for now since we have connection checks that run before this to see if the user can reach our server.

]]> By: mister t http://makeshiftgames.com/2009/12/04/in-app-announcements/comment-page-1/#comment-456 mister t Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:27:32 +0000 http://makeshiftgames.com/?p=391#comment-456 I would recommend putting the synchronous request in another thread, since it will lock your GUI (or loading process in this case). Better would be to use a asynchronous request and initialize your app for the 'none' situation. Besides that you're trying to retrieve a file less than 32 kb. This means that ASIHTTPRequest can't track the progress of the download (see docs), which means that the time-out of the request doesn't work. Instead the time-out value will be 75 seconds ( the standard time-out of CFStream). For more information search the google group of ASIHTTPRequest for 'time-out 32kb'. Of course these problems only matter when the user has a very slow connection or a low quality connection (high ping values). I would recommend putting the synchronous request in another thread, since it will lock your GUI (or loading process in this case).

Better would be to use a asynchronous request and initialize your app for the ‘none’ situation.

Besides that you’re trying to retrieve a file less than 32 kb. This means that ASIHTTPRequest can’t track the progress of the download (see docs), which means that the time-out of the request doesn’t work. Instead the time-out value will be 75 seconds ( the standard time-out of CFStream). For more information search the google group of ASIHTTPRequest for ‘time-out 32kb’.

Of course these problems only matter when the user has a very slow connection or a low quality connection (high ping values).

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