I believe I read somewhere that the timeout in the IO::Socket::INET or whatever doesn't apply to the connection, although I could be mixing my dim perldoc memories.UPDATE: I'm right-ish see bottom of post
So, I have cobbled something out of LWP::ParallelUserAgent, where in the depths of the code, he uses a construct (shown below), there is an equivalent can_read (perldoc IO::Select) method, and these actually give working timeouts if the server / network is AWOL on my system at least
eval { die if !$sockout->can_write( $TIMEOUT ) };
#-- or :
eval {
local $SIG{'__WARN__'} = sub { }; #---- ignore warnings i
+n the eval
$fd = new IO::Socket::INET( PeerAddr => $details{'server'},
PeerPort => $details{'port'},
Proto => 'tcp') or die $@;
};
if ($@) { #---- connect fail
+ed
$log->write('TRACE', "Can't connect TCP $@ \n") if $out;
} else {
my $sel = IO::Select->new( $fd ); #---- for timeout
eval { die if !$sel->can_write( $TIMEOUT ) };
UPDATE : knew I'd read it somewhere
Found it:
pp 114 Chapter 5 IO::Socket API, Lincoln Stein book
$val->timeout($timeout);
timeout() gets or sets the timeout value that IO::Socket uses for its connect and accept methods. (snip). The timeout value is not currently used for calls that send or recieve data...
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