i have a script for a school project so the timeout i set 1 second and it stay alot of time i don't know why :(

 use strict;
use diagnostics;
use warnings;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request;
use HTTP::Response;
my $def = new LWP::UserAgent;
my $hostsfile;
my $host;
my @hosts;
my $userresp;
my $url;
my @checks = ("http://HOST:5555/server/test.php");
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(agent => "School", env_proxy => 1, keep_a
+live => 1,timeout => 1);

print qq(Host File Name:\t);
$hostsfile = <STDIN>;

chomp($hostsfile);
open(IN, $hostsfile) or die "$!";

@hosts = <IN>;
chomp(@hosts);

print qq(School A28A group B project\n);
print qq(Output Saved To CGIVTI.log.\n\n);
foreach $host (@hosts) {
  foreach (@checks) {
    $url = $_;
    $url =~ s/HOST/$host/;
    #$url = $_;
    print qq(:: Checking $url...\n);
    my $request = new HTTP::Request('GET', $url);
    my $response = $def->request($request);
    if ($response->is_success) {
      print $response->content;
      open(OUT, ">>CGIVTI.log");
      print OUT $url;
      close OUT;
    } else {
      print qq(Not wOKING..\n\n);
    }
  }
}
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look the timeout is 1 second and it stays 3-4 mins or more . Please help me. Thanks Cox.

I put all the code