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	 (res        #f))
    (handle-exceptions
     exn
     (if (> numretries 0)
	 (begin
	   (mutex-unlock! *http-mutex*)
	   (thread-sleep! 1)
	   (handle-exceptions
	    exn
	    (debug:print 0 "WARNING: closing connections failed. Server at " fullurl " almost certainly dead")
	    (close-all-connections!))
	   (debug:print 0 "WARNING: Failed to communicate with server, trying again, numretries left: " numretries)
	   (http-transport:client-api-send-receive run-id serverdat cmd params numretries: (- numretries 1)))
	 (begin
	   (mutex-unlock! *http-mutex*)
	   (tasks:kill-server-run-id run-id)
	   #f))
     (begin
       (debug:print-info 11 "fullurl=" fullurl ", cmd=" cmd ", params=" params ", run-id=" run-id "\n")
       ;; set up the http-client here
       (max-retry-attempts 1)
       ;; consider all requests indempotent
       (retry-request? (lambda (request)
			 #f))
       ;; send the data and get the response
       ;; extract the needed info from the http data and 
       ;; process and return it.
       (let* ((send-recieve (lambda ()
			      (mutex-lock! *http-mutex*)
			      ;; (condition-case (with-input-from-request "http://localhost"; #f read-lines)
			      ;;					       ((exn http client-error) e (print e)))
			      (set! res (handle-exceptions
					 exn
					 (begin
					   (debug:print 0 "ERROR: failure in with-input-from-request. Giving up.")
					   (debug:print 0 " message: " ((condition-property-accessor 'exn 'message) exn))
					   #f)
					 (with-input-from-request ;; was dat
					  fullurl 
					  (list (cons 'key "thekey")
						(cons 'cmd cmd)
						(cons 'params params))
					  read-string)))
			      ;; Shouldn't this be a call to the managed call-all-connections stuff above?
			      (close-all-connections!)
			      (mutex-unlock! *http-mutex*)
			      ))
	      (time-out     (lambda ()
			      (thread-sleep! 45)
			      #f))

(define (make-http-transport:server-dat)(make-vector 5))
(define (http-transport:server-dat-get-iface         vec)    (vector-ref  vec 0))
(define (http-transport:server-dat-get-port          vec)    (vector-ref  vec 1))
(define (http-transport:server-dat-get-api-uri       vec)    (vector-ref  vec 2))
(define (http-transport:server-dat-get-api-url       vec)    (vector-ref  vec 3))
(define (http-transport:server-dat-get-api-req       vec)    (vector-ref  vec 4))
(define (http-transport:server-dat-get-last-access   vec)    (vector-ref  vec 5))

(define (http-transport:server-dat-make-url vec)
  (if (and (http-transport:server-dat-get-iface vec)
	   (http-transport:server-dat-get-port  vec))
      (conc "http://" 
	    (http-transport:server-dat-get-iface vec)
	    ":"
	    (http-transport:server-dat-get-port  vec))
      #f))

(define (http-transport:server-dat-update-last-access vec)
  (vector-set! vec 5 (current-seconds)))

;;
;; connect
;;
(define (http-transport:client-connect iface port)
  (let* ((api-url      (conc "http://" iface ":" port "/api"))
	 (api-uri      (uri-reference (conc "http://" iface ":" port "/api")))
	 (api-req      (make-request method: 'POST uri: api-uri))
	 (server-dat   (vector iface port api-uri api-url api-req (current-seconds))))
    server-dat))

;; run http-transport:keep-running in a parallel thread to monitor that the db is being 
;; used and to shutdown after sometime if it is not.
;;
(define (http-transport:keep-running server-id run-id)
  ;; if none running or if > 20 seconds since 

	  (thread-start! th2)
	  (thread-start! th3)
	  (set! *didsomething* #t)
	  (thread-join! th2)
	  (exit)))))

(define (http-transport:server-signal-handler signum)
  (signal-mask! signum)
  (handle-exceptions
   exn
   (debug:print " ... exiting ...")
   (let ((th1 (make-thread (lambda ()
			     (thread-sleep! 1))
			   "eat response"))
	 (th2 (make-thread (lambda ()