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Luc
Asked: 2011-11-05 23:35:59 +0800 CST

ASIHttpRequest duplicate request on heroku

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I have an iphone app using ASIHttpRequest. The server code is on heroku in node.js

From time to time, a single request is sent from the iphone (only one trace) app but it is received twice on herokuapp (I can see twice the same request in the heroku logs).

I though at the beginning the request was requested twice because of an error in the first attempt but it's not the case as both request (the one I need and the second one I don't need) are performed on server side.

Any idea ?

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1 Answers

  1. This has bitten me too. I was using a GET request to validate a multi-use voucher code on a server. When we added a rate limitation for redeeming codes some customers reported hitting the limit before they should have. Turns out that some of the validations triggered two redeems.

    I assume that your request is using the GET method.

    The default behavior when using GET is to allow persistent connections (the Keep-Alive HTTP header).

    When using a persistent connection your GET request might get retransmitted if something on the network looks wonky (that's a technical term) instead of the request just failing. This is usually desirable because GET requests often do not have any side effects on the server.

    POST or PUT requests on the other hand default to not use a persistent connection and will not retransmit your operation, which could well be a credit card purchase or something else with significant side effects.

    If you wish to prevent your ASIHTTPRequest GET sometimes sending 2 or more server requests (due to network issues outside your control) you can simply set this flag:

    request.shouldAttemptPersistentConnection = NO;

    This should take care of the spurious GET duplicates on the server.

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