I run a lot of http requests to pull web pages. Errors in connecting (for me) occur in two ways: 1, to get the dns, and 2, to the host. Looking at line 268 of Methods.pm, it *seems* that the connection has already been established and there is an error reading the contents of the response. I say seems, because that's a sub that could be called from anywhere, including a DNS lookup.

Do you have any other information about what else has happened prior to the error? Does this happen all 5 times of your loop, and that's when there's a problem? Or does it just happen randomly and kill the script? And what percentage of the time does it happen that the script errors out like this?

In reply to Re: Occasional Read Timeout with Mech by benwills
in thread Occasional Read Timeout with Mech by pirkil

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