Hi! I'm a new perl programmer, really new. I'm doing a basic program that use Net::SOCKS and connect over SOCKS4 with a telnet server. My code works fine, I did it based on this documentation http://search.cpan.org/~clintdw/SOCKS-0.03/lib/Net/SOCKS.pm My code simple connect to a port like 8010 and 8011 because they are the two ports that my SOCKS servers are configured, however as they are in a test environment they tend to change constantly like the port 8011 changes to a HTTP proxy and consequently SOCKS doesn't work. My solution is to connect to the port and do a connection at it with NET::Socks to make sure it works. 
my $sock = new Net::SOCKS(socks_addr => $socksserver, socks_port => $s
+ocksport, protocol_version => 5);

my $con = $sock->connect(peer_addr => '10.1.1.3', peer_port => 23);

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If the $socksserver is running a SOCKS server at port $sockspor it works great and very fast. But for example if at port $sockspor is running a HTTP proxy it takes VERY LONG to return. Like 4 minutes or so, and it's unacceptable. My idea to solve the problem is define a timeout like 10 seconds for Net::Socks connection, however there is no option at documentation and all my tests failed. Any solution please? Thank you

In reply to Net::SOCKS how define timeout? by perlmonks12

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