From: Brian Durand <brian@...>
Date: 2008-01-11T12:22:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::HTTP Timeout

Ben Giddings wrote:
> 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

The crash is caused by the default behavior of timeouts (which is what 
Net::HTTP uses). By default timeouts throw an InterruptException which 
kills the current thread. You can get a simple fix for this with the 
http_configuration gem/plugin 
(http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/http_configuration).
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