From: Horacio Sanson <hsanson@...>
Date: 2005-12-12T11:22:49+09:00
Subject: Catching Errno::ETIMEDOUT


This is a little method I use to download webpages. It works ok until I 
started receiving some Errno::ETIMEDOUT errors that cause my script to fail.

I tried rescuing this error using recue Timeout::Error but it doesn't work.

Any ideas how can I catch this error to avoid the script to fail and just 
ignore the error??


 def connect
                # Do we have a url to process do we?? if not simply return
                if not @uri
                        return nil
                end

                begin
                        h = Net::HTTP.new(@uri.host, @uri.port)
                        h.use_ssl = true if @uri.scheme == "https"
                        @resp = h.get(@uri.request_uri, nil )

                rescue SocketError
                        @resp = Net::HTTPNotFound.new(1.1, 404, "Not Found")
                end

                return @resp
end




thanks
Horacio