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					   (begin
					     (set! success #f)
					     (debug:print 0 "WARNING: failure in with-input-from-request to " fullurl ".")
					     (debug:print 0 " message: " ((condition-property-accessor 'exn 'message) exn))
					     (hash-table-delete! *runremote* run-id)
					     ;; Killing associated server to allow clean retry.")
					     (tasks:kill-server-run-id run-id)  ;; better to kill the server in the logic that called this routine?
					     (signal (make-composite-condition
						      (make-property-condition 'commfail 'message "failed to connect to server")))
					     #f)
					     ;; (signal (make-composite-condition
					     ;;          (make-property-condition 'commfail 'message "failed to connect to server")))
					     "communications failed")
					   (with-input-from-request ;; was dat
					    fullurl 
					    (list (cons 'key "thekey")
						  (cons 'cmd cmd)
						  (cons 'params sparams))
					    read-string))
					  transport: 'http)))

				      (exit))
				    (loop start-time
					  (equal? sdat last-sdat)
					  sdat)))))))
         (iface       (car server-info))
         (port        (cadr server-info))
         (last-access 0)
	 (server-timeout (let ((tmo (configf:lookup  *configdat* "server" "timeout")))
	 (server-timeout (server:get-timeout)))
			   (if (and (string? tmo)
				    (string->number tmo))
			       (* 60 60 (string->number tmo))
			       ;; (* 3 24 60 60) ;; default to three days
			       (* 60 1)         ;; default to one minute
			       ;; (* 60 60 25)      ;; default to 25 hours
			       ))))
    (let loop ((count         0)
	       (server-state 'available))
      ;; Use this opportunity to sync the inmemdb to db
      (let ((start-time (current-milliseconds))
	    (sync-time  #f)
	    (rem-time   #f))
	;; inmemdb is a dbstruct