in reply to WWW::Mechanize Timeout period

Looks like mech doesn't do anything special with the timeout, so you're just dealing with LWP::UserAgent. The first thing I'd check is whether you're actually getting the timeout set with your code. From the LWP doc: 

$ua->timeout
$ua->timeout( $secs )
Get/set the timeout value in seconds. The default timeout() value is 1
+80 seconds, i.e. 3 minutes.

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Re^2: WWW::Mechanize Timeout period
by alexm (Chaplain) on Jul 27, 2009 at 22:54 UTC

    I've successfully tested that the timeout option used in WWW::Mechanize::new works as expected for me.

      DB<1> use WWW::Mechanize

  DB<2> $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new (timeout=>300)

  DB<3> x $mech->get ('http://192.168.1.77')
Error GETing http://192.168.1.77: Can't connect to 192.168.1.77:80 (co
+nnect: No route to host) at (eval 35)[/usr/share/perl/5.10/perl5db.pl
+:638] line 2
  DB<4> x $mech->timeout
0  300
  DB<5> x $mech->timeout(1)
0  300
  DB<6> x $mech->timeout
0  1
  DB<7> x $mech->get ('http://192.168.1.77')
Error GETing http://192.168.1.77: Can't connect to 192.168.1.77:80 (co
+nnect: timeout) at (eval 40)[/usr/share/perl/5.10/perl5db.pl:638] lin
+e 2

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    Note the difference in error message reported.

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