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Workaround For WinInet DNS not refreshing when using KB 263558

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If you are making Synchronous calls in WinInet, the DNS timeouts don't appear to work when set (see: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/263558 ).

Async calls do however work correctly.

One workaround is to simply restart the application using WinInet. 

I found a code workaround for the issue as well.  Simply open and close the handle you get with the InternetOpen call then open it again:

hOpen= ::InternetOpen(.....);

InternetCloseHandle(hOpen);

hOpen= ::InternetOpen(.....);

// now use handle...

 The performance impact will be very low.

 -Jeff

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  • Anonymous
    March 30, 2010
    See the KB article.  It is now updated with this information.