From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2004-12-14T07:21:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread and HTTP troubles


Robert Klemme said:


> You'll likely need to catch another exception.  Try "rescue Exception =>
> e" and then print e's class.

The error in question is Timeout::Error which inherits from Interrupt
which in turn inherits from SignalException.  Since a plain vanilla rescue
clause will only rescue exceptions deriving from StandardError (and
SignalException is not derived from StandardError), it won't pick up this
exception.

If you use

  begin
    # stuff
  rescue Timeout::Error => ex
    # handle timeout
  end

you should be ok.

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