From: Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2008-01-04T03:06:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::HTTP Timeout

On Wednesday 02 January 2008, thefed wrote:
> > 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.

It seems to me that your program, or whatever is using Net::HTTP should 
handle the timeout better, rather than crashing.  You can always wrap 
the call in something that rescues the timeout error and retries 
(perhaps after printing out a warning), or you could ask the user what 
to do.  Not timing out at all isn't the best approach.

Ben