Hello,

I'm looking for a way to handle Can't connect error in DBH. Currently if the mysql DB is down I get the following:  DBI connect('database=xyz','xyz',...) failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111) at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/CGI/Application/Plugin/DBH.pm line 42

I looked through the docs and could not find a way. Since the handle is lazily created, I am assuming that CGI::Session is the first to make the DB call and trigger the error. There must be a proper way to handle this?

Thanks in advanced

In reply to CGI::Application::Plugin::DBH connect error handling by gman

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