From: Carl Youngblood <carl@...>
Date: 2003-09-24T08:36:36+09:00
Subject: Re: TimeoutError in Net::HTTP get and post

Was this just a stupid question or does nobody know the answer?  Or 
another option I guess would be that everyone is too busy.

Carl Youngblood wrote:
> 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
>