Re: Subject: Re: Why does LWP freeze with this URL ?

bobmin@nidlink.com
Wed, 9 Aug 2000 00:22:51 -0700


On 8 Aug 2000, at 18:25, SeeItAllGuy@aol.com wrote:

> I tried all sorts of timeouts and that never helped at all. I even threw in a 
> ALARM which didn't have any affect unless I used a well known URL. I have 
> seen LWP waiting for over a hour on the URL. Around lunch time it did respond 
> back after 5 mins with a error that it could not connect with a 
> $ua->timeout(10). A later attempt it just hanged for over 30 mins till I 
> killed it.  Seems to me a lot of the timeout problems could perhaps be solved 
> if one could understand what is happening with these various URLS and their 
> server responses to make socket/select more responsive for a wider variety of 
> URL's encountered since this is what LWP relies on for the connection. 
> 

 If you don't mind, can you provide a few example urls?  It sounds 
like we're running up against similar problems, except that our 
system is running the requisite 3 minutes before failing (so far).  
Unfortunately 3 minutes is still too long and I would like to reduce the 
timeout. 

 Does anyone know if the timeout feature is being worked on?

	Regards
	Bob Minnick, Northern Webs

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