Re: Timeout Handling (Re: WWW::HTTP )

Martijn Koster (m.koster@nexor.co.uk)
Thu, 18 May 1995 08:24:50 +0100


In message <9505172247.AA04374@franz.ww.TU-Berlin.DE>, Andreas Koenig writes:

> 
>    Citing Martijn...
>                    and Andreas suggested allowing the user to override
>    error handling, using MI.
>    
> Well, my suggestion came 2 hours before Larry revealed his
> $SIG{__WARN__} and $SIG{__DIE__} pseudo signal handler. Don't they

Yeah, I can't get used to writing in such a dynamic language either :-)

> solve the problem for us both? Now I can catch your die()s without
> eval and I'm happy. And I hope you're doing a nice recovering, so that
> I can bring my scripts to a graceful end :)

That depends. I'd like to return a 408 when a local timeout occurs,
which means I'd need to trap it in the library. Are you saying you're
not fussed and would be happy with a die?

I guess I could make it configurable...

-- Martijn
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