From: Raghu Kumar <mailbvrk@...>
Date: 2007-06-26T17:35:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Timeout errors using Net::HTTP on Windows

Hi,

Thanks a lot... I was struck with this problem ... now I have no 
problem.

But in my project I have lot of different web pages to scrap, is 
anything possible to tweak so that responses are fast ?

Raghu

Ben Brightwell wrote:
> Interesting results!!! What an understatement!! How on earth did you 
> figure that out? It worked like a charm. Initially my problem was just 
> that the HTTP request took FOREVER... then i started randomly getting 
> the timeout errors mentioned above. I went into the net/protocol.rb file 
> and made this change and voila!. Not only did the errors go away, but 
> the request takes literally 1/30th of the time it did before it 
> eventually got the data or even timed out.. Marcin Coles, you are the 
> genius of the day! Thank you!
> 
> Marcin Coles wrote:
>> Well, I'm no expert, and I certainly wasn't going to learn another 
>> language, so I decided to do some tests because this was a problem for 
>> me too.
>> 
>> I went into protocol.rb, to the rbuf_fill method (where it actually 
>> starts the timeout thread).
>> 
>> the code there was
>> 
>> def rbuf_fill
>>       timeout(@read_timeout)  {
>>         @rbuf << @io.sysread(1024)
>>       }
>> end
>> 
>> now timeout takes 2 parameters - a time in seconds(?) and an exception 
>> class to raise (defaults to Error).
>> 
>> When I changed the code to the following, it started to work for me. 
>> New code:
>> 
>> def rbuf_fill
>>       timeout(@read_timeout,ProtocolError) {
>>         @rbuf << @io.sysread(1024)
>>       }
>> end
>> 
>> Obviously this is not exactly extensively tested - but an interesting 
>> results.
>> 
>> Marcin


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