Hi - the relevant lines of my script are

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use LWP::Simple;
$pass=1;
my $doc = get('http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Sudbu
+ry&state=MA&site=BOX&lat=42.3667&lon=-71.4') || die {$pass=0};
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This is part of a script that runs every 15 minutes that gets this webpage, parses some specific info from it (like temperature), and writes the info to a file so my home control program can later open the file and act on the data. My problem is that a few times a day, the get never returns, and the script hangs. I have another script running that detects the hang, and kills and restarts the script. But that's clunky. I'd like to either eliminate the hang, or detect the hang -within- the script. But that is a level of Perl that I haven't dealt with before so I'm wondering if anyone can point me to a recipe. Thanks!

Further background - using ActivePerl on a W7 machine this code never hung. Switched to W10 and ActivePerl stopped supporting the get properly so I switched to Strawberry Perl (which i like better overall) but where I am having this intermittent issue. (this is probably the "fanciest" thing I do with Perl on my PC so for everything else either Perl works fine).

Many Thanks!
/j

In reply to get() from website hangs by jeffw_00

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