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

[Edi Weitz]

On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 20:14:01 -0400, "Andrei Stebakov" <lispercat at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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

Of course not.

> or is there something I/we could do to fix it?

I'd need a reproducible test case to say more about it.