in reply to Re^2: IO::Socket Timeouts
in thread IO::Socket Timeouts

Well, then I'd go with alarm on the client side, and re-set the alarm after each successful read or send. Then there's the is_connected method of IO:Socket. In the handler, I'd check with $socket->is_connected, shutdown the socket and reconnect. I can think of no better way to handle forever_futile than alarm().

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