From: Horacio Sanson <horacio.sanson@...>
Date: 2006-08-29T11:12:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Rescue http Bad File Descriptor error (EBADF)

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I think I did try...  but will try again. now I have to wait until the error
occurs again...

thanks

On 8/28/06, Eero Saynatkari <eero.saynatkari@kolumbus.fi> wrote:
>
> Horacio Sanson wrote:
> > I have a little web spider that scraps several web pages. Sometimes the
> > script gets a Bad File Descriptor error and the script bails out.
> >
> > As far as I can understand this error is an OS (Windows XP) error and
> > there
> > is nothing ruby can do to avoid it (Maybe XP cannot handle so much http
> > connections so rapidly). But I cannot find a way to recover from the
> > error.... I don't want the script to bail out, but simply continue with
> > the
> > next page.
> >
> > I have tried to rescue and try/catch the error with all imaginable
> > exception
> > classes, still the script always bails out when this error ocurrs. I
> > know
> > this error is in the ruby net/http library since I have used Mechanize,
> > Http-access2, http-access and all of them suffer from this error.
>
> Did you try this?
>
> begin
>   # Read stuff etc.
> rescue Errno::EBADF
>   # Whatever
> end
>
> > Here are the details of the error
> >
> > <snip />
> >
> > This code is executed for each page (100~). Adding rescue or try/catch
> > anywhere inside the get_page method or around it when called does not
> > catch
> > the error... the script always stops when the error ocurrs.  Also since
> > this
> > error is very sporadic I cannot reproduce it making it very difficult to
> > debug.
> >
> > Any tips are very appreciated.
> >
> > Horacio
>
>
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