timeout and/or re-send REQ/REP replies? about axon

[AlexeyKupershtokh]

It would be nice if nodejs provide access to low level tcp, so axon could mark messages as delivered according to tcp ACK packets. But I'm afraid it doesn't.
So yet another option for this is to write your own TCP over TCP/IP 😄

"Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) provides reliable, ordered delivery of a stream of octets from a program on one computer to another program on another computer."

[matthiasg]

i think ACK'ing only makes sense on the application level ... zmq also does it this way for good reason. If you care about processed delivery then the applicaton has to supply acking anyway (e.g. like twitter storm or any of the patterns that zmq proposes) . Adding ACK;ing here would only lure people into a false sense of security and messages could and will still get lost.

[matthiasg]

btw: a timeout on a response might make sense