More on NSL Fork (was: Re: LYNX-DEV Re: http://www.wfbr.edu/dir/lynx)

[Nelson Henry Eric]

> > 'z'ap without having to wait for completion or time out of the
[...]
> It seems to be working fine here on both UnixWare and UMAXV.

Am I the only one who is not getting the message (may be a real pun here :-)
intended when the NS lookup is interrupted by pressing `Z' or `^G'?

In HTTCP.c there is the section:
                 *  abort if interrupt key pressed
                 */
                if (HTCheckForInterrupt()) {
                    if (TRACE)
                        fprintf (stderr, "*** INTERRUPTED gethostbyname.\n");
                    kill(fpid , SIGKILL);
                    FREE(host);
                    return HT_INTERRUPTED;

From this, I would expect to get the message, `Connection interrupted.' or
something to that effect, but I am getting `Unable to connect to remote host.',
which is the same message I would get if I let the lookup timeout.

Or am I looking in the wrong place in HTTP.c (HTFTP.c, etc):
  status = HTDoConnect (arg, "HTTP", HTTP_PORT, &s);
  if (status == HT_INTERRUPTED)
    {
      /* Interrupt cleanly. */
      if (TRACE)
          fprintf (stderr,
                   "HTTP: Interrupted on connect; recovering cleanly.\n");
      _HTProgress ("Connection interrupted.");
      status = HT_NOT_LOADED;
      goto done;
    }
  if (status < 0)
    {
      if (TRACE)
          fprintf(stderr,
            "HTTP: Unable to connect to remote host for `%s' (errno = %d).\n",
            url, SOCKET_ERRNO);
      HTAlert("Unable to connect to remote host.");
      status = HT_NOT_LOADED;
      goto done;

If it's only me, I'll plug away at a hack.  (I'd rather have _statusline
(CANCELLING), as in LYDownload.c, anyway.)

__Henry
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