You normally wouldn't use IO::Socket directly.

If you want a TCP socket, you'd use IO::Socket::INET which is a sub-class of IO::Socket.

The constructor of IO::Socket::INET takes as parameters a "flattened hash" of arguments. Like so:

  my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(
       OptionFoo => 1,
       OptionBar => 'something',
       OptionBaz => 10
    );

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If you read the IO::Socket::INET documentation, you'll see that one of the options mentioned is called 'Timeout', and is likely the option you'll need to change.

I'd imagine something like:

  use strict;
  use warnings;
  use IO::Socket::INET;

  my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(
      PeerAddr => '123.45.67.89',    # IP address
      PeerPort => '2000',            # port
      Timeout  => '60'               # timeout in seconds
    );
  # rest of your code using $sock.

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Is that easier to understand ?

-David

In reply to Re^3: Perl Socket time out too small by erroneousBollock
in thread Perl Socket time out too small by h3x

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