LWP Module - timing out

filmo has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm using the LWP module to plow through a bunch of pages (~10K) sequentially. I've tried using the LWP::Simple 'get' and the LWP::UserAgent 'POST' methods. Both seem extremely slow to retreive the page. (I realize that this is partially a function of the server on the other end.) It seems like it hangs on certain pages longer that others. Is there a way to "timeout" the request after X seconds and move on so that I'm not waiting forever for it to return an UNDEF value?

It seems that it takes the average page about 2 seconds to be requested using either method, but the occational page can take a minute or more and I'd rather either skip them entirely or log them for future lookup, but in either case, simply move quickly to the next page. Thanks.
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Filmo the Klown

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Re: LWP Module - timing out by arhuman (Vicar) on May 23, 2001 at 11:49 UTC
I would suggest to use Super Search (keywords : LWP timeout) You'll find interesting posts, and may discover potential problems : timeout not working when establishing conexion to unreachable host the danger of setting your own sig handler redirection handling (3xx response) "Only Bad Coders Badly Code In Perl" (OBC2IP)	[reply]
Re: LWP Module - timing out by Anonymous Monk on May 23, 2001 at 11:46 UTC
From the LWP::UserAgent documentation: `$ua->timeout([$secs]) Get/set the timeout value in seconds. The default timeout() value is 180 seconds, i.e. 3 minutes.` [download]	[reply] [d/l]