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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

	(if (tasks:server-running-or-starting? (db:delay-if-busy (tasks:open-db)) run-id)
	    (client:setup run-id)
	    #f))))

(define *send-receive-mutex* (make-mutex)) ;; should have separate mutex per run-id
(define (rmt:send-receive cmd rid params #!key (attemptnum 1)) ;; start attemptnum at 1 so the modulo below works as expected
  ;; clean out old connections
  ;; (mutex-lock! *db-multi-sync-mutex*)
  ;; (let ((expire-time (- (current-seconds) 60)))
  ;;   (for-each 
  ;;    (lambda (run-id)
  ;;      (let ((connection (hash-table-ref/default *runremote* run-id #f)))
  ;;        (if (and connection 
  ;;       	  (< (http-transport:server-dat-get-last-access connection) expire-time))
  ;;            (begin
  ;;              (debug:print-info 0 "Discarding connection to server for run-id " run-id ", too long between accesses")
  ;;              ;; SHOULD CLOSE THE CONNECTION HERE
  ;;              (hash-table-delete! *runremote* run-id)))))
  ;;    (hash-table-keys *runremote*)))
  ;; (mutex-unlock! *db-multi-sync-mutex*)
  (mutex-lock! *db-multi-sync-mutex*)
  (let ((expire-time (- (current-seconds) (server:get-timeout) 10))) ;; don't forget the 10 second margin
    (for-each 
     (lambda (run-id)
       (let ((connection (hash-table-ref/default *runremote* run-id #f)))
         (if (and connection 
        	  (< (http-transport:server-dat-get-last-access connection) expire-time))
             (begin
               (debug:print-info 0 "Discarding connection to server for run-id " run-id ", too long between accesses")
               ;; SHOULD CLOSE THE CONNECTION HERE
	       (case *transport-type*
		 ((nmsg)(nn-close (http-transport:server-dat-get-socket 
				   (hash-table-ref *runremote* run-id)))))
               (hash-table-delete! *runremote* run-id)))))
     (hash-table-keys *runremote*)))
  (mutex-unlock! *db-multi-sync-mutex*)
  ;; (mutex-lock! *send-receive-mutex*)
  (let* ((run-id          (if rid rid 0))
	 (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*

		(res "NOREPLY"))
       (if (eof-object? inl)
	   (case (string->symbol res)
	     ((NOREPLY)  #f)
	     ((LOGIN_OK) #t)
	     (else       #f))
	   (loop (read-line) inl))))))


(define (server:get-timeout)
  (let ((tmo (configf:lookup  *configdat* "server" "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
	)))