Getting timeout to work

I'm working on an ISP running 5.00503. I've managed to upgrade LWP, and now I'm trying to get the timeout to work. Currently requests can block for about 15 minutes regardless of the timeout setting -- and wrapping the call in an alarm doesn't work either. IIRC I need to update the IO distribut

Re: URI::Heuristic: should it call hostfqdn() on loading?

This patch stops URI::Heuristic from accessing the network when it is first loaded. Instead, the way to access the two-letter country code is through the MY_COUNTRY() function, which finds out the information when it is called and caches it for later. Setting $URI::Heuristic::MY_COUNTRY by hand