--- documentViewer/documentViewer.py	2006/04/12 18:53:00	1.10
+++ documentViewer/documentViewer.py	2006/06/13 14:57:46	1.10.2.1
@@ -192,9 +192,12 @@ class documentViewer(Folder):
             
     def getIndexMeta(self, url):
         """returns dom of index.meta document at url"""
+        num_retries = 3
         dom = None
+        metaUrl = None
         if url.startswith("http://"):
             # real URL
+            metaUrl = url
             try:
                 dom = NonvalidatingReader.parseUri(url)
             except:
@@ -206,11 +209,17 @@ class documentViewer(Folder):
             metaUrl=server+url
             if not metaUrl.endswith("index.meta"):
                 metaUrl += "/index.meta"
+        
+        for n in range(num_retries):
             try:
                 dom = NonvalidatingReader.parseUri(metaUrl)
+                zLOG.LOG("documentViewer (getIndexMata)", zLOG.INFO,metaUrl)
+                break
             except:
-                zLOG.LOG("documentViewer (getIndexMata)", zLOG.INFO,"%s (%s)"%sys.exc_info()[0:2])
-                raise IOError("Unable to read index meta from %s"%(url))
+                zLOG.LOG("ERROR documentViewer (getIndexMata)", zLOG.INFO,"%s (%s)"%sys.exc_info()[0:2])
+                
+        if dom is None:
+            raise IOError("Unable to read index meta from %s"%(url))
                  
         return dom