anyone else on this? I'm interested too. It's a real problem.
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Jimmy Wales wrote:
>
> Jumana,
>
> I have never solved the problem to my satisfaction. But this sort of
> thing has helped:
>
> $SIG{ALRM} = \&my_catch_alarm;
>
> eval {
> ualarm 3_000_000;
> $result = $agent->request(HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url));
> ualarm 0_000_000;
> };
> if ($@) {
> # We timed out... or something
> return;
> }
>
> (I am using ualarm rather than alarm because I sometimes need finer
> resolution than alarm gives me.)
>
> This alarm does go off sometimes, and works out o.k. for me. But,
> in my opinion, it does not ALWAYS go off, and for reasons that I
> do not at all understand.
>
> --Jimbo
>
>
>
