From: "André" <andre.nho@...>
Date: 2007-12-14T01:25:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby/Gnome app hangs when http'ing from inside a thread (linux 	only)

Anyone?


André

On Dec 12, 4:01 pm, "André" <andre....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm writing a Ruby/Gnome application that auto-updates itself from the
> internet when a new version is available.
>
> The auto-update function runs in a different thread, so the user won't
> even notice that the application is checking for a new version.
>
> It all works fine, EXCEPT when there's no network connection. In this
> case, the WHOLE application simply hangs for one or two minutes, with
> no regard for the fact that this code is running in a thread, or that
> the timeout property is set.
>
> And this error only happens on linux. Has anybody ever experienced
> anything like it?
>
> A sample code follows:
>
> Thread.new do
>         http = Net::HTTP.new('myhost.com')
>         http.open_timeout = 5
>         http.read_timeout = 5
>         http.start
>         resp = http.get('/somefile.html')
>         puts resp.body
> end
>
> André