I'm grabbing data from a special Twitter firehose-type URL.

It will send information indefinitely*, so in order to manage the amount of data received by the script, it's recommended to use the maximum-time option.

Here's what I'm doing, a system() call containing: 

/usr/bin/curl 
--request 'GET' 'https://stream.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/sample.json' 
--max-time 180 
--header 'Authorization: $header'

[download]

Where $header is some OAuth magic.

So, is it possible to do this without the shell-out to curl and keep it all within Perl?

As far as I can see, that maximum time option isn't directly related to HTTP Headers, it's curl-specific.

* Updated to add documentation on this "indefinitely" thing. From the Twitter documentation::

To connect to the Streaming API, form a HTTP request and consume the resulting stream for as long as is practical. Our servers will hold the connection open indefinitely, barring server-side error, excessive client-side lag, network hiccups, routine server maintenance or duplicate logins.

In reply to How to make an HTTP request with an equivalent of curl's --max-time? by Cody Fendant

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