The connection does not timeout while downloading file from internet

Question

Related to a post of mine ( How to retrieve a file from Internet via HTTP? ) about how to easily and robustly download a file from Internet, I have found a possible solution

Answer 1

IMO, you should run this in a thread. Threading does not have to mean looping - it can be a "one and done" thread. Run it that way, and your GUI remains responsive until the thread finishes. I realize that this does not actually answer your question, but it will make your code better.

Also, if you disconnect the internet during the first loop where you're checking for data, I think it will retry 10 times. You should detect, and then quit right away.

Lastly, I don't think you should use EXIT when you've got handles and stuff open. Break instead, so that you still run through the disconnects. I would expect your code to tie up the socket. I saw this recently during a code review when there was an EXIT intead of a BREAK, and it's causing a memory leak because objects are created and never freed. I'd use the same rule here.