From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2008-11-14T17:07:44+09:00
Subject: Re: How to set socket option SO_RCVTIMEO

Also, if you're not concerned about the possibility of transmission 
stopping part way through a response, you can do

if select([sock],nil,nil,1.5)
  result = sock.gets
else
  puts "I timed out!"
end
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