Okay here's the code snippet first ...
    $UserAgent = new LWP::UserAgent;
    $UserAgent->timeout(10);
    $UserAgent->agent("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
+ rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0");
    
    $MyRequest = HTTP::Request->new('GET',"$URL");
    $MyResponse = $UserAgent->request($MyRequest);

    if ($MyResponse->is_success) {
        $FContent = $MyResponse->content;
        $FCode = $MyResponse->code;
        $FBase = $MyResponse->base;
    } else {
        $FContent = "";
        $FCode = $MyResponse->code;
        $FBase = "";
    }

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And now the problem.

As far as I can tell the "timeout" value only seems to apply to the *connection* itself.

Under heavy usage checking 10,000 external links from our websites, I have seen one or two sites that appear to connect correctly, but then take maybe 5 to 10 minutes to retrieve the page requested.

So it seems once connection is made, the remote server can feed as slowly as he likes, and my script has to wait 10 minutes to retrieve the page.

Is there anyone who has come across a similar problem, and is there any way to wrap the block up in an interrupt or similar, so I can specify "if page takes longer than 30 seconds to transfer, then abort" ?

Thanks in advance

In reply to LWP Timouts by davemcgi

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