Hi Guys, I'm currently working on a type-safe memcache client library using Boost.Asio (Friendster has plans on open sourcing it, but we're continuing developing in house before doing so, to make it more feature-full). Having said this, it involves having to write the network layer stuff and I've chosen to use Boost.Asio. We've been fairly successful so far, we currently have a working library (header only) already using Boost.Serialization + Boost.Spirit + Boost.Asio + Many Boost C++ Libraries and we're looking at putting a few more features in. One of these features is the ability to make a request to the server, and time-out after a short period of time (configurable, defaults to 1 second). For a myriad of reasons, we're using blocking API calls (boost::asio::read_until and boost::asio::write) but these API calls don't seem to readily have a way of setting a timeout value -- one that says "try reading until either the response matches this... or throw an error after 1 second if you don't get a response from the server". Would there be a different way of going about it, aside from using asynchronous operations? Advice and insight would be most appreciated. -- Dean Michael C. Berris http://cplusplus-soup.blogspot.com/ mikhailberis AT gmail DOT com +63 928 7291459