How do you deal with timeout (err 16) on tradeoffer send?

[nickb123]

So, we all know that error 16 timeout is steam's fault. It doesn't return an offer object, but sometimes (most of the time), the offer does go through. So I have no way of recording the offer in my database. The only thing I could do is take a hash of the itemIDs and store that in my DB and wait for a new offer to come in that matches it.

 

Is this what you guys do? Is there anything else i can do?

[Dr. McKay]

There are pretty much two things you can do.

1. Cancel unknown offers in unknownOfferSent and hope that the user doesn't accept it before you can cancel it (and if they do, fix it manually)
2. Include some kind of internal identifier in the trade offer message and use that to track offers instead of (or in addition to) the offer ID

[nickb123]

Oh of course! I already have an internal id - i'll use that.