What all is / can be cloud blocking?

[emcdee]

@rickkas7

but connect() is definitely blocking

Thank you!

I'm now catching up here,

TCPClient.connect() blocks - how to "unblock"?

The blocking nature of TCPClient.connect() is a well documented issue in the forum, specifically the hardcoding of the timeout. Am testing a corner case of using a bad IP address and this is giving a 5 second blockage (as expected). To work around this long blockage, I tried setting a timer that kicks off after 250 mS just before the call to .connect(). The timer callback calls TCPClient.stop(), hoping that this would circumvent the block, but it does not. @rickkas7 has some great posts on th…