Getting an timeout error while trying to pull http data in xml format. I want if timeout happen it should not append to "events.xml" and keep the existing "events.xml" unchanged.

So need help to understand the error handling in perl and how to manage that if (failed) { DO Nothing } else (run the working code) { Do something }..

Error:

D:\Development\BVD DCSS Dashboard>perl getDataDCSS.pl

syntax error at line 1, column 0, byte 0:
read timeout at C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/Net/HTTP/Methods.pm line 2
+68.
^
at C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/XML/Parser.pm line 187.

D:\Development\BVD DCSS Dashboard>

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Here is my code to perform that 


#!/usr/bin/env perl                       
use warnings;
use strict;
                               
#use HTTP::Request::Common qw(GET);
use LWP::UserAgent;
use DateTime;
use DateTime::Format::Strptime;
use Cpanel::JSON::XS qw(encode_json);

## Variable Definition

my $dtnow = DateTime->now;
my $twoWeeksAgo = DateTime->now->subtract(weeks => 2);  ## Date used t
+o pull events data from today – 2 weeks.
my $resp;
my $request;

## Get events from OMi ##

    my $omi_url="https://omi.test.com/opt-web/rest/9.10/event_list/?qu
+ery=title%20LIKE%20%22logtec(100)%25%22&watermark=$twoWeeksAgo%2B02:0
+0";
    my $user="username";
    my $password="*******";

    #print "$omi_url\n";
    my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new( ssl_opts => { verify_hostname => 0 }
+, );;
    $ua->credentials('omi.test.com:544','HP Operations Manager i',$use
+r,$password);
    $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $omi_url);
    $resp = $ua->request($request);
    $resp->is_success or die $resp->status_line;
    print $resp->as_string;
    open(my $fh, '>', 'events.xml');
    print $fh $resp->content;
    close $fh;

## End ###

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