From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2008-07-18T09:33:27+09:00
Subject: Re: force timeout net/http

Alfonso Caponi wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> I'm using net/http module to connect to a list of hosts.
> How can I force to connect to next host of the list after a timeout?
> 
> http.open_timeout = timeout
> http.read_timeout = timeout
> 
> This doesn't works! :(
> 
> Thank you list,
> Al

If the problem is that it stalls in DNS resolution then
require 'resolv-replace' might help.
Surrounding your call with
require 'timeout'
begin
Timeout::timeout(seconds_to_timeout) { call here } # might work.
rescue Timeout::Error
end
-R
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