Dear Monks,

I'm trying to play with timeouts in the module IO::Socket. Here's what I got so far.

server.pl:

use 5.010;
use strict;
use warnings;
use IO::Socket;
say 'Server listening...';
my $server = IO::Socket::INET->new(Proto     => 'tcp',
                                   LocalPort => 8000,
                                   Listen    => 1,
                                   ReuseAddr => 1,
                                   Timeout   => 10) or die;
my $client = $server->accept() or die;
$server->close;
say 'Connection from ' . $client->peerhost;

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client.pl:

use 5.010;
use strict;
use warnings;
use IO::Socket;
my $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new(Proto    => 'tcp',
                                   PeerAddr => 'localhost',
                                   PeerPort => 8000,
                                   Timeout  => 10) or die;
say 'Client connected';

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I launch server.pl, followed shortly by client.pl. I got on the server side:

Server listening...
Connection from 127.0.0.1

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And on the client side:

Client connected

Now, I launch only server.pl. I got 10 seconds later:

Server listening...
accept: timeout ...propagated at server.pl line 16.

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So far, so good. Now I launch only client.pl. And I instantly got:

IO::Socket::INET: connect: 10061        ...propagated at client.pl line 8.

I would have preferred that the client gave up after 10 seconds.

Is there a way to make the client wait a bit for the server to start up instead of giving up immediately? (I'm on Windows by the way)

Stamm

In reply to Timeouts in IO::Socket by Stamm

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