On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 14:00:34 -0500 , Matt wrote:
> I have a line like this:
>
> $rststr = get("http://"; . $dst . "/request.htm" );
>
> Problem is that I have had this script hang due to the $dst site being
> down. Is there a way to do a time out?
Consider using the core alarm() function, or using LWP::UserAgent (I'm
guessing you're using LWP::Simple here, which is just a wrapper around
LWP::UserAgent) and specifying the timeout attribute on that object.
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