in reply to Making Timeout for Yourself

I don't understand. Won't $http->request() block until it gets something back or the underlieing socket times out? How can you check the timeout if it blocks?

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Re: Re: Making Timeout for Yourself
by mcogan1966 (Monk) on Dec 31, 2003 at 20:53 UTC
    Darnit, you're right.

    I reversed the conditions, and I seem to have blocked the timer check. Grr. And here I though I had solved the problem.

    Any thoughts on how to get around this?

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      Best way is to e-mail the author of HTTP::Lite with a patch that adds a way to set a timeout value (which should be easy) and sets that timeout value on the socket it opens (which should also be easy).

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