@@ -243,11 +243,12 @@
 			 (http-transport:server-dat-get-api-req serverdat)
 			 (begin
 			   (debug:print 0 "FATAL ERROR: http-transport:client-api-send-receive called with no server info")
 			   (exit 1))))
 	 (res        #f)
-	 (success    #t))
+	 (success    #t)
+	 (sparams    (db:obj->string params transport: 'http)))
     (handle-exceptions
      exn
      (if (> numretries 0)
 	 (begin
 	   (mutex-unlock! *http-mutex*)
@@ -255,11 +256,11 @@
 	   (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)))
+	   (http-transport:client-api-send-receive run-id serverdat cmd sparams numretries: (- numretries 1)))
 	 (begin
 	   (mutex-unlock! *http-mutex*)
 	   (tasks:kill-server-run-id run-id)
 	   #f))
      (begin
@@ -276,25 +277,27 @@
 			      (mutex-lock! *http-mutex*)
 			      ;; (condition-case (with-input-from-request "http://localhost"; #f read-lines)
 			      ;;					       ((exn http client-error) e (print e)))
 			      (set! res (vector
 					 success
-					 (handle-exceptions
-					  exn
-					  (begin
-					    (set! success #f)
-					    (debug:print 0 "WARNING: failure in with-input-from-request to " fullurl ". Killing associated server to allow clean retry.")
-					    (debug:print 0 " message: " ((condition-property-accessor 'exn 'message) exn))
-					    (hash-table-delete! *runremote* run-id)
-					    ;; (tasks:kill-server-run-id run-id)  ;; better to kill the server in the logic that called this routine.
-					    #f)
-					  (with-input-from-request ;; was dat
-					   fullurl 
-					   (list (cons 'key "thekey")
-						 (cons 'cmd cmd)
-						 (cons 'params params))
-					   read-string))))
+					 (db:string->obj 
+					  (handle-exceptions
+					   exn
+					   (begin
+					     (set! success #f)
+					     (debug:print 0 "WARNING: failure in with-input-from-request to " fullurl ". Killing associated server to allow clean retry.")
+					     (debug:print 0 " message: " ((condition-property-accessor 'exn 'message) exn))
+					     (hash-table-delete! *runremote* run-id)
+					     ;; (tasks:kill-server-run-id run-id)  ;; better to kill the server in the logic that called this routine.
+					     #f)
+					   (with-input-from-request ;; was dat
+					    fullurl 
+					    (list (cons 'key "thekey")
+						  (cons 'cmd cmd)
+						  (cons 'params sparams))
+					    read-string))
+					  transport: 'http)))
 			      ;; Shouldn't this be a call to the managed call-all-connections stuff above?
 			      (close-all-connections!)
 			      (mutex-unlock! *http-mutex*)
 			      ))
 	      (time-out     (lambda ()