Re: Is it possible to impose a timeout on <>?

From: pkent (pkent77tea_at_yahoo.com.tea)
Date: 03/06/04 

Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 11:58:47 +0000

In article <e8f67309.0403050035.4ad523c3@posting.google.com>,
 megapode@hotmail.com (Bob Dubery) wrote:

> This is done via HTTP
...
> The program hangs at the <> operator.
>
> OK... a wierd situation and not a common one, but I want to improve
> the code. Specificially when I invoke <> I'd like to be able to impose
> a time out so that if I get nothing back after n seconds I can raise
> an error condition and start interrogating the next site.

Here is some example code:

   my $line;
   eval {
      alarm($alarmtime);
      $line = <SOCKET>;
   };
   alarm 0; # cancel the alarm
   if ($@) {
      # whatever error handling...
   }

There may be better ways that use lower-level reading functions though.

P 

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