Rewrites of urlread and urlwrite
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Two days ago, on MATLAB Newsgroup, I found Greggory asking something about "urlread" which is lack of TIMEOUT capability. And such a deficiency often leads to an embarrassing and horriable situation that main function gets freezed easily when the network is busy or abnormal.
At the beginning, I tried to follow the asker by using a timer, but it failed finally. The reason I thought is that timer can not interrupt the
task being busy at all and yet MATLAB doesn't have a scheme for using multi-threads so far. Fortunately, I discovered another hope that a part of urlread is written in JAVA. So I tried to modify the urlread function by adding a "timeout" parameter, enabling it to automatically stop the request at a time the user specified.
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Fu-Sung Wang (2026). Rewrites of urlread and urlwrite (https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/8474-rewrites-of-urlread-and-urlwrite), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .
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- MATLAB > Data Import and Analysis > Data Import and Export > Web Access and Streaming > Web Services >
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| Version | Published | Release Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0.0 | It isn't optimised, so let me know if there is any bug. |
