[ic] checkout selection fails

[James P. Kinney III]

Great idea, Jeff!

Caleb, the UPS site was slammed so apache was timing out before the UPS
site could return anything useful. I did a work-around by dropping in
the UPS lookup table and resetting the shipping method.



On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 14:38, Jeff Dafoe wrote:
> > I had this exact problem when the shipping calculation was fscked. For
> > example, if you use FedEx Web Lookup and blocked all outgoing
> > ports(particularly 80 if I remember correctly) then you would see these
> > symptoms as IC chews on itself.
> 
>     This issue could be mitigated if someone reworked Business::UPS (UPS.pm)
> to use LWP::UserAgent instead of LWP::Simple .  You could then set a smaller
> timeout value.  I would do it if I used UPS.  For Business::Fedex its even
> easier as that module already uses LWP::UserAgent, you just need to throw a
> 
> $ua->timeout(10);
> 
>      right after the
> 
> my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
> 
>     With a smaller timeout, the web server's connection to UPS or Fedex
> should timeout before the web server's connection to the client does.
> 
> Jeff
> 
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