From: Emilio Tagua <miloops@...>
Date: 2007-04-18T23:48:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Timeout errors using Net::HTTP on Windows

On 4/17/07, Toby DiPasquale <toby@cbcg.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm having a problem here running some file upload code on Windows. I've
> installed Ruby 1.8.6 from the one-click installer on Windows 2000 Server
> in VMware and on real hardware with Windows XP. The client, when running
> on Windows, always times/errors out no matter what. Here's the error:
>
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:2094:in `error!': 408 "Request Timeout
> " (Net::HTTPServerException)
>         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:2103:in `value'
>         from put_client.rb:25:in `upload_file'
>         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:543:in `start'
>         from put_client.rb:20:in `upload_file'
>         from put_client.rb:30
>
> Here is the client code that is causing the problems:
>
> <client>
> require 'net/https'
>
> def upload_file url, file
>   uri = URI.parse url
>   http = Net::HTTP.new uri.host, uri.port
>   if uri.scheme == 'https'
>     http.use_ssl = true
>     http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
>   end
>
>   if file.respond_to? :read
>     file.rewind
>     stream = file
>     length = File.size file.path
>   else
>     stream = File.open file
>     length = File.size file
>   end
>
>   http.start do
>     req                 = Net::HTTP::Put.new uri.path
>     req.body_stream     = stream
>     req.content_length  = length
>     resp = http.request req
>     resp.value
>   end
> end
>
> if __FILE__ == $0
>   upload_file "http://localhost:8443/junk", ARGV.shift
> end
> </client>
>
> Here is some server code I was using to test:
>
> <server>
> require 'webrick'
>
> s = WEBrick::HTTPServer.new(:Port => 8443)
>
> class PutServlet < WEBrick::HTTPServlet::AbstractServlet
>    def do_PUT(req, res)
>      res['Content-Type'] = "text/html"
>      res.body = "Uploaded #{req.body}"
>    end
> end
>
> s.mount("/", PutServlet)
> trap("INT"){ s.shutdown }
> s.start
> </server>
>
> This only happens on Windows and it happens irrespective of the web
> server involved. I've tried this on Mac OS X (WEBrick and nginx) and it
> works fine. Running the client on Windows, though, I've tried this
> against WEBrick and nginx and both exhibit the same behavior when
> running the client from Windows.
>
> Any ideas? Thanks.

You could try something like:
def method
  begin
   response = Timeout::timeout(5) {   Net::(whatever u want from NET Class) }
   ...
  rescue Timeout::Error
    puts 'Timeout!!!'
    ....
  end
end

Hope it helps you!