Megatest

	    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)))

	  (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 ()