From: Minero Aoki <aamine@...>
Date: 2001-12-30T19:24:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29714] Re: http timeout?


  In mail "[ruby-talk:29678] http timeout?"
    "Mark Hahn" <mchahn@facelink.com> wrote:

> If I try to connect to an http server with Net::HTTP.new().get and the
> server doesn't respond, the get call never returns (I've waited 3 minutes).
> Shouldn't there be a timeout?

Try this:

   http = Net::HTTP.new(host,port)
   http.open_timeout = 30  # secs
   http.read_timeout = 60  # secs
   ....

Sould I set timeout limit by default?

-- Minero Aoki