Alarm/Timeout/Die

Norris Couch (couch@vnet.ibm.com)
Wed, 06 Aug 1997 22:16:37 -0500 (CDT)


I'm using LWP 5.10 as distributed in Ilya's standard OS/2 Perl
distribution.

I have several scripts (including 1 of Randal's Web Techniques scripts)
with the following problem:

  I update the default timeout value
  I usually (90+% of the time) get a 408 if I time out
  For some reason, the rest of time my script ends with:

    Timeout at .../UserAgent.pm Line 228, <DATA> chunk 38.

Any suggestions on how to get time outs as 408 100% of the time rather
than the script dying occasionally.  No, there is not a noticeable
pattern or specific URL that causes the failure.  Yes, failure has
occured on more than 1 machine.

Thanks,

Norris