[drakma-devel] drakma:http-request sometimes returns nil

[Andrei Stebakov]

I am using SBCL 1.04. I've just upgraded to latest hunchentoot, drakma
etc...
It happens when I upload a file using POST request. Most of the times the
http-request just works and returns the result which I parse and it's
meaningful. Occasionally (1 out of 10 times) the http-request returns nil.
To verify it, I tested it not from the web, but from the slime propt. It it
took me a while to understand why my web app was misbehaving sometimes.
For now I put a workaround like
(loop for i from 0 to 5 while (not http-request-result) do
        (setq http-request-result (drakma:http-request ....))
which works.
I'd like to know if it's an expected behavior of the http request or is
there something I/we could do to fix it?

Thank you,
Andrew
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