From: Minero Aoki <aamine@...>
Date: 2001-06-30T16:11:42+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17097] Re: Net::HTTP


  In mail "[ruby-talk:17096] Net::HTTP"
    Alan Tsang <atsang@hk.linkage.net> wrote:

> Is there a way to raise an error if the the connection get stuck and no 
> data is coming throught the http connection for a configurable length of 
> time?

Try below:

> filenames=[an array of filenames]
> http=Net::HTTP.new(hostname)

  http.read_timeout = 30   # 30 sec

> http.start

Minero Aoki