Re: tcl 8.3.3: concurrent http::geturl fail to save complete image

Ralf Fassel wrote:
tcl 8.3.3, http package 2.3, Windows XP
I try to save the live image from a Mobotix Webcam via
set channel [open $file w]
http::geturl http://CAMERA-IP/record/current.jpg \
-timeout 2000 \
-channel $channel \
-command [...]

Whenever I start 3 or more simultaneous requests before the first one
completes, I get truncated images in the saved files.
1 or 2 simultaneous requests is ok, 3 or more fail reliably.

When I use the same code on linux, I do not see this problem.
When I use simultaneous 'wget' invocations, I do not see this problem.
When I use the same code in 8.4.x, this does not seem to be a problem.

So the conclusion is that this a problem of TCL8.3.3/http2.3 on windows.

The bug database on sourceforge does not show related bugs for
'geturl', so the question whether anyone has seen this before?

8.3 is really old -- 8.5 is about to go final.

My guess is that it is a problem with the handling of binary data in 8.3 (BTW, you *really* should fconfigure the channel to have -translation binary on *all* platforms).

I'd really recommend upgrading your windows box to 8.4.11 (or higher) or 8.5b3.

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