Parfeval, Backgroundpool and Webread

I am trying to use parfeval to do a webread on a background pool and it responds with the message...

Invalid default value for property 'UserAgent' in class 'weboptions':Use of function version is not supported on a thread-based worker. Use alternatives supported on the background pool.

which I assume means I can't use webread with the background pool.

is there another way to do this?

Answer 1

[Edric Ellis]

Unfortunately, as you suspect, right now the only way to do this is to use a process pool via parpool('local') or similar.

[Alex Alex]

The message says that there are alternatives supported on the backgound pool. Could you give a hint what they are? matlab.net.http.RequestMessage? Thank you.

[Raymond Norris]

As Edric suggests, use a local parallel pool.

pool = parpool("local",1);
f = pool.parfeval(@webread,1,'http://www.mathworks.com');
f.wait
size(f.fetchOutputs)