From: akanksha <akanksha.baid@...>
Date: 2006-08-09T04:50:11+09:00
Subject: Re: mechanize timeout errors

could you plz elaborate a little on that or point me to an example.


Alex Young wrote:
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> A;ex