URL Spider Timeout Issue

[chitownclone]

My program was just transferred from a shared server to a dedicated. The default timeout on the decided is 3 minutes, so when my spider comes across a URL that is not active or doesn't return code....my spider tries for exactly 3 minutes, when I need it to be 30 seconds.

Here's the code:
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#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
require "/home/

http://www/marketing-server/cgi-bin/cgi-lib.pl";

&ReadParse(*in);
print &PrintHeader;
use LWP::Simple;
require LWP::RobotUA;
require LWP::UserAgent;

$ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
$ua->timeout([1]);

open (READ, "/home/

http://www/cgi-binoutput_urls.txt");

@url=<READ>;
close(READ);

foreach $url (@url){
# Process Code
}
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Anyone see what I am doing wrong or have any suggestions to reset my timeout from 3 minutes to 30 seconds.

Thanks

 

[PaulTEG]

$ua->timeout(30);

180 secs is default, dunno what [1] does, but seems it read it as an indication to use default

HTH
--Paul


cigless ...

 

[ishnid]

PaulTEG's example is the correct way to do it.

$ua->timeout([1]);

Just to explain this - the square brackets indicate a reference to an anonymous array. In this case, that array has one element. The timeout() method is expecting an iteger, not a reference to an array of integers, which is why it's not working for you.