From: Carl Youngblood <carl@...>
Date: 2003-09-22T22:49:54+09:00
Subject: TimeoutError in Net::HTTP get and post

I'm trying to rescue a TimeoutError in Net::HTTP's get and post methods, 
but it's not working.  I noticed some postings about how the rescue 
catch-all didn't work any more for TimeoutErrors, but I can't even 
explicitly rescue this error.  I know the page is available and that 
retrying will work, in this case, and all I want is a quick and dirty 
way of scraping some web pages, but this error brings down my script. 
Here's my code:

begin
   resp, data = h.post('/tsd_listings/tsd_search.fpl', postdata, headers)
rescue TimeoutError => e
   retry
end

Thanks in advance for your help.

Carl Youngblood

P.S. I'm using Ruby 1.8.0