Without having a way to model the timeouts you see, it's going to be hard to give accurate advice to fix your problems, but I can give some general advice.

* When you create your ftp object, make sure you set Debug = 1. There is also a Timeout flag you can turn on.

my $ftp = Net::FTP->new("foo.bar.com", Debug => 1, Timeout => 120);

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* A lot of people here don't like the CGI101 pages but their Net::FTP page is pretty good.

* When I tested timeout code on servers that don't have an ftp server, the error I would get is: Can't call method "login" on an undefined value at ./ftp_timeout_test.pl line XX. And of course the code wouldn't continue because the module failed. But one possible work around would be something like:

* Set a timeout for, oh 300 seconds when you instantiate the Net::FTP object but then set an alarm for 295 seconds just prior to that. Trap the alarm signal to give you a timeout. If the connection proceeds smoothly, then unset the alarm.

In reply to Re: Net:FTP timeout handaling by dwm042
in thread Net:FTP timeout handaling by kian.tern

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