Hi All,
  I'm having a little trouble with LWP. I have a script that grabs pagerank and the HTML for a list of sites. The problem is if it hits a bad site it hangs. I'm trying to limit time it spends on each site so that it doesn't get caught. Here is a code snippet:-

require PageRank;
my $PR = WWW::Google::PageRank->new;
use LWP::Simple qw($ua get);

foreach $siteurl (@websites) { ## Start main loop
  my $pagerank = $PR->get($siteurl);
  unless ($pagerank) { $pagerank = 0; } ## End unless  
  $ua->timeout(30);
  $ua->agent('Blah');
  my $html = get($website);
} ## End loop

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Anyone know what I'm doing wrong, n why it's hanging??

Thanks

In reply to LWP simple, setting timeout by cosmicperl

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