From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2006-08-09T04:27:14+09:00
Subject: Re: mechanize timeout errors

Berger, Daniel wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: akanksha [mailto:akanksha.baid@gmail.com] 
>>Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 12:45 PM
>>To: ruby-talk ML
>>Subject: mechanize timeout errors
>>
>>
>>I am using mechanize for scraping some urls.
>>begin
>>     page = agent.get(url)
>>rescue
>>     puts "oops!!"
>>end
>>
>>catches invalid urls etc. , but how to I handle timeout 
>>errors? In particular this is the error I get :
>>
>>request-header: accept => */*
>>request-header: user-agent => WWW-Mechanize/0.5.1
>>(http://rubyforge.org/projects/mechanize/)
>>/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:54:in `rbuf_fill': 
>>execution expired
>>(Timeout::Error)
>>        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:56:in `timeout'
>>        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:76:in `timeout'
> 
> 
> begin
>    page = agent.get(url)
> rescue Timeout::Error
>    puts "Timeout!"
>    raise
> rescue
>    puts "Some other error!"
>    raise
> end
> 
> If you want control over the timeout value I think you'll need to
> re-wrap the call to agent.get in your own timeout block:
Not so:  WWW::Mechanize#read_timeout= is your friend.

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