From: ts Date: 2002-03-02T22:13:33+09:00 Subject: Re: Net::HTTPRequestTimeOut >>>>> "H" == Hubert Hung-Hsien Chang writes: H> agent.open_timeout = 5 Well, the documentation say that it raise TimeoutError : open_timeout : open_timeout=(n) seconds to wait until connection is opened. If HTTP object cannot open a conection in this seconds, it raises TimeoutError exception. Guy Decoux