From: sishen Date: 2007-06-15T17:15:17+09:00 Subject: How to set the timeout attr when using open-uri to open a url. ------=_Part_42332_31311898.1181895318789 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline I met a problem using open-uri. I want to set the timeout of the open process. And i see the open method has a option named "read_timeout". So i just code as open("www.abc.com", {:read_timeout => 10}). But, i can't see the effect. What's wrong with that? Any help thanks. ------=_Part_42332_31311898.1181895318789--