I have a script that parses over anywhere from one to infinity (well, let's hope it doesn't quite go THAT high but I've done as many as 178 links at once). Some servers have taken 10+, 30+ and even more than a few minutes before I got a response and it slows the script. How can I setup a time-out where if it takes more than XX seconds it'll skip it and move on?

A little background: the script takes my url and collects all links on a page, I'm trying to create a spider so I'm using LWP::Simple on MY page, then using it in a loop for all the links it finds. This means it has to wait for the link to either work or die otherwise it just stops and acts like it's busted.

In reply to How to make a time-out with LWP::Simple by coldfingertips

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