From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...17n.org>
Date: 2005-05-07T23:32:50+09:00
Subject: Re: [ ruby-Bugs-1878 ] No way to change socket timeout on opened URI

In article <200505052255.j45MtVam031547@rubyforge.org>,
  noreply@rubyforge.org writes:

> open-uri is very handy, but as far as I can tell I can't change the read timeout
> on the underlying socket.  I end up having to hack a workaround into Net::HTTP
> to allow me to set a timeout on its instances before opening the URI.

Does adding :read_timeout option solve the problem?

Index: lib/open-uri.rb
===================================================================
RCS file: /src/ruby/lib/open-uri.rb,v
retrieving revision 1.36
diff -u -p -r1.36 open-uri.rb
--- lib/open-uri.rb	19 Feb 2005 15:53:23 -0000	1.36
+++ lib/open-uri.rb	7 May 2005 14:26:52 -0000
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ module OpenURI
     :progress_proc => true,
     :content_length_proc => true,
     :http_basic_authentication => true,
+    :read_timeout => true,
   }
 
   def OpenURI.check_options(options) # :nodoc:
@@ -237,6 +238,9 @@ module OpenURI
       store.set_default_paths
       http.cert_store = store
     end
+    if options.include? :read_timeout
+      http.read_timeout = options[:read_timeout]
+    end
 
     header = {}
     options.each {|k, v| header[k] = v if String === k }
@@ -518,6 +522,13 @@ module OpenURI
     #      :progress_proc => lambda {|s|
     #        pbar.set s if pbar
     #      }) {|f| ... }
+    #
+    # [:read_timeout]
+    #  Synopsis:
+    #    :read_timeout=>nil     (no timeout)
+    #    :read_timeout=>10      (10 second)
+    #
+    #  :read_timeout option specifies a timeout of read for http connections.
     #
     # OpenURI::OpenRead#open returns an IO like object if block is not given.
     # Otherwise it yields the IO object and return the value of the block.
-- 
Tanaka Akira