From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2001-11-17T04:42:11+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25624] Re: Net::HTTP

On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Alan Tsang wrote:

> site.  Sometimes for some reasons, the downloading never get finished, and
> the script is waiting indefinitely for the supposed coming data.  Then, I
 	[...]
> Is there a way to raise an error if the the connection get stuck and no
> data is coming throught the http connection for a configurable length of
> time?
>
> Thanks

require "timeout"

# timeout.rb is in the standard library, but documentation is lacking.

	Hugh