Your question is a bit vague. Saying "it stops responding" could mean several things. Perhaps zentara's links will solve your problem.

I've written an example TCP server which will kill a process after $timeout seconds or if the client closes the connection.

You can test it with a web browser, e.g., connecting to http://yourserverhere:5050/ and then clicking the Stop loading button.

If neither my nor zentara's answer helps you, post your actual code and a more precise description of what happens. (By the way, the correct English is "timing out", not "timeouting".) 

use IO::Socket::INET;
use IO::Select;
use Errno;
use strict;
$| = 1;

my $timeout = 30;
my $listen = IO::Socket::INET->new(
  Listen => 5, 
  LocalPort => 5050, 
  Proto => "tcp")
  or die "new sock error: $!\n";

my $alive;
$SIG{CHLD} = sub { $alive = 0 };
while (1) {
  my $conn = $listen->accept;
  if (!$conn) {
    if ($!{EINTR}) {
      next
    } else {
      last
    }
  }
  print "Accepted\n";
  while (<$conn>) {
    last if /^\r?\n$/;
  }
  print "After header\n";
  $alive = 1;
  my $pid = fork;
  die "fork error: $!" unless defined $pid;
  if ($pid) {
    IO::Select->new($conn)->can_read($timeout);
    if ($alive) {
      print "killing child process\n";
      kill 'KILL', $pid
    } else {
      print "Child already dead\n";
    }
  } else {
    print $conn "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nContent-Type: text/html\r\n\r\n";
    print $conn "<html><head><title>abort test</title></head>\n";
    for (1 .. 100) {
      print $conn "<div>$_<br></div>\n";
      sleep 1;
    }
    print $conn "</html>\r\n";
    $conn->shutdown(2);
    close($conn);
  }
}

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In reply to Re: Timeouting a socket script by Thelonius
in thread Timeouting a socket script by ivanatora

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