Greetings

I am attempting to use the timeout function of LWP::UserAgent. The following code is straight from the documentation yet I can not successfully utilize the timeout. I am attempting to access an unreachable address, and if nothing is returned within a set amount of time (less than the default of three minutes), I would like the process to stop attempting to reach (what will be ovbiously) an unreachable host.

Guidence would be appreciated 

#! /usr/bin/perl

use Crypt::SSLeay;
use LWP::UserAgent;

 my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;

 my $response = $ua->get('https://66.11.78.112');

#this timeout statement is not effective     

$ua->timeout(3);

     if ($response->is_success) {
     print $response->content;  # or whatever
                                      }
     else {
     die  printf " %s\n", $response->status_line;
      }

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In reply to Enabling timeout method in LWP::UserAgent by dReKurCe

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