From: Bob Gustafson <bobgus@...>
Date: 2006-03-22T21:04:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::HTTP timeout

You could search the source for '60'. And/or 'Timeout::Error'

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 18:44 +0900, Alexandru E. Ungur wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is there a way to set the timout limit that affects Net::HTTP ?
> This is what I'm trying to do:
> 
>   body = Net::HTTP.get(URI.parse(url))
> 
> and I do know that the target script (url) takes a long time to do
> its processing and to return the data to the calling script, so 
> that's why I want get() to ignore any timeouts (or to set them high
> enough).
> 
> This is what I get right now:
> 
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:197:in `rbuf_fill': socket read timeout (60
> sec) (Timeout::Error)
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:160:in `readuntil'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:171:in `readline'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1760:in `read_chunked'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1739:in `read_body_0'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1705:in `read_body'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1730:in `body'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1668:in `reading_body'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:835:in `request'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:297:in `get_by_uri'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:296:in `start'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:296:in `get_by_uri'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:282:in `get_response'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:263:in `get'
>         from jobqueue.rb:41
> 
> 
> 
> Any tips/pointers are appreciated, thank you,
> Alex
> 
> P.S. I did read http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/ -> net/http but
> haven't seen any method/parameter that might help me on this...