From: thefed <fedzor@...>
Date: 2008-01-03T06:55:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::HTTP Timeout


On Jan 1, 2008, at 10:34 PM, Bryan Duxbury wrote:

> This is a terrible idea. Starting in another thread causes  
> rbuf_fill to return immediately instead of waiting to fill the  
> buffer. The use of timeout causes it to wait a while trying, and  
> then abort if it fails. Using a thread without a timeout will  
> completely monkey with things.
>
> Is there some reason as to why you want to do this? What are you  
> trying to accomplish?
>

When I'm using ruby to download large files, everynow and then the  
server doesn't respond for over 60 seconds, and my program crashes  
with a timeout error.