Megatest

					   exn
					   (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?

					     ;; could try to start server here, if sucessful, retry the call to with-input-from-request
					     ;; otherwise - raise the error

					     ;; (rmt:start-server run-id)
					     
					     (mutex-unlock! *http-mutex*)
					     (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")

	 (connection-info (rmt:get-connection-info run-id)))
    ;; the nmsg method does the encoding under the hood (the http method should be changed to do this also)
    (if connection-info
	;; use the server if have connection info
	(let* ((dat     (case *transport-type*
			  ((http)(condition-case
				  (http-transport:client-api-send-receive run-id connection-info cmd params)
				  ((commfail)
				   (if (< attemptnum 5)
				       (begin
					 (debug:print 0 "Trying again, try number " attemptnum)
					 (hash-table-delete! *runremote* run-id)
					 (rmt:send-receive cmd rid params attemptnum: (+ attemptnum 1)))
				       (begin
					 (debug:print 0 "Giving up, try number " attemptnum)
					 (vector #f "communications fail"))))
				  ((exn)(vector #f "other fail"))))
			  ((nmsg)(condition-case
				  (nmsg-transport:client-api-send-receive run-id connection-info cmd params)
				  ((timeout)(vector #f "timeout talking to server"))))
			  (else  (exit))))
	       (success (if (vector? dat) (vector-ref dat 0) #f))
	       (res     (if (vector? dat) (vector-ref dat 1) #f)))

	  res))))

(define (rmt:send-receive-no-auto-client-setup connection-info cmd run-id params)
  (let* ((run-id   (if run-id run-id 0))
	 ;; (jparams  (db:obj->string params)) ;; (rmt:dat->json-str params))
	 (res  	   (handle-exceptions
		    exn
		    (begin
		      (debug:print 0 "Failed in rmt:send-receive-no-auto-client-setup, cmd=" cmd ", run-id=" run-id ", params=" params)
		       #f)
		    (http-transport:client-api-send-receive run-id connection-info cmd params))))
;;		    ((commfail) (vector #f "communications fail")))))
    (if (and res (vector-ref res 0))
	(vector-ref res 1) ;;; YES!! THIS IS CORRECT!! CHANGE IT HERE, THEN CHANGE rmt:send-receive ALSO!!!
	#f)))
;; 	(db:string->obj (vector-ref dat 1))
;; 	(begin