Have a look at the attributes of the new() method for LWP::UserAgent. You'll find that the final attribute is.......timeout.

There is also the timeout() method found in the LWP::UserAgent module.

The POD for the module states:

$ua->timeout( $secs )

Get/set the timeout value in seconds. The default timeout() value is 180 seconds, i.e. 3 minutes.

The requests is aborted if no activity on the connection to the server is observed for timeout seconds. This means that the time it takes for the complete transaction and the request() method to actually return might be longer.

I hope this helps!


Dave

In reply to Re: Catching time-outs by davido
in thread Catching time-outs by coldfingertips

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