The main problem is that the perl process which runs on the client machine will appear to sit there forever if there was some sort of a network issue. I'd like to have it essentially timeout so it can reset itself and try the connection again in a few minutes.

The general concept here is that these clients periodically connect to the server to send/receieve any data that needs to be transferred. Right now, if there is any kind of a network glitch during a transfer (which seems to happen with a few of these clients that have dodgy DSL lines), the client will sit there forever. I'm trying to come up with a relatively clean way for the client machine to realize it has taken way too long, and that it should give up and just attempt a new connection during its next update window.

In reply to Re^2: IO::Socket Timeouts by markh
in thread IO::Socket Timeouts by markh

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