Hello

I use the following to retrieve from server the version number of the latest available update of my software.

    my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
    my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);
    my $res = $ua->request($req);
    $ua->timeout(0.1);

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This works fine execpt if there is a connection problem. For example, the server has been down for the whole weekend now (!!!). In such a case, my GUI application - while running this peace of code - freezes for ca. 15 seconds. This is not acceptable. What I want is that if there is no response from the server, no matter the reasons, the application just skip this check. I tried to replace LWP::UserAgent with LWPx::ParanoidAgent, but this did not lead to any improvement. Any other idea?

In reply to LWP::UserAgent timeout by IB2017

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