in reply to Re (tilly) 3: Forking Issue
in thread Forking Issue

I'm trying desperately to get a timeout for socket connections on Win32. Trying to do something other than have them just hang the program.
*sigh*

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Re (tilly) 5: Forking Issue
by tilly (Archbishop) on Mar 18, 2001 at 00:28 UTC
    IO::Socket has a timeout attribute that you can get/set. Does that work on Win32?
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      Apparently, the timeout method exists in Win32. It is set to undef by default. Here's the sample code I used: 

      my $sock = new IO::Socket;
print $sock->timeout() || "undef";    # prints "undef"
$sock->timeout(10);
print $sock->timeout() || "undef";    # prints "10"

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        Exists is not the same as working. I phrased my original statement as a question because while I knew the method would be there, I didn't know if it would work.

        Check out Re (tilly) 1: Timeout problem using IO::Socket for more on this.

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      Nope. :-(
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