Fellow monks: I'm still learning this, but here's my problem. Despite using a timeout, the "$response = $ua->request($request);" below often hangs. What am I doing wrong here? I've considered wrapping the get, timeout, and request, in some sort of a block and killing it if it times out, but there's got to be a better way. 
  my $ua;
  my $url;
  my $request;
  my $response;
  my $timeout = 60;

  $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
  $ua->agent("DMC-Monitor/1.0");

  $request = new HTTP::Request("GET", "$url");
  print "\$request=|$request|\n";

  $response = $ua->timeout($timeout);
  print "\$response=|$response|\n";

  $response = $ua->request($request);  # <== Hangs here
  print "\$response=|$response|\n";

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Thanks in advance, Beau

In reply to HTTP Request Hangs by Beau Landeaux

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