in reply to LWP::Simple hanging (maybe?)

If you want to control timeouts, I think that LWP::Simple is just that.. too simple. If you want finer control over your "GET's", use LWP::UserAgent instead. This provides a 'timeout' method which you can use to timeout sooner.
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Re^2: LWP::Simple hanging (maybe?)
by derby (Abbot) on Aug 10, 2005 at 12:36 UTC
    ++ and for example 

    #!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $agt = LWP::UserAgent->new();
$agt->timeout( 10 );

my $res = $agt->get( 'http://www.perlmonks.org' );
if( $res->is_success ) {
  print " ... ok\n";
} else {
  print " ... failed: ", $res->code, "\n";
}

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