- From: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 16:33:42 +0100 (BST)
- To: Hugo Haas <hugo@w3.org>
- cc: Stefania Manzi <manzi@sns.it>, www-validator@w3.org
> What can happen though is that when a server is unreachable, the > program might wait undefinitely until the TCP connection is open and > ignore the timeout for some reason. It is apparently a bug in > IO::Socket earlier than version 1.20 on Linux. There is a simple workaround for that one: route outgoing connections through a proxy, and set a short timeout. So long as the proxy itself is reliably reachable, all timeouts will then work smoothly. > I need to upgrade the module, but I think that we would need to switch > to Perl 5.6 for that, so it would require some tests. I don't *think* Perl 5.6 actually makes any difference here. Unless we're talking about altogether different timeout conditions. -- Nick Kew Site Valet - the essential service for anyone with a website. <URL:http://valet.webthing.com/>
Received on Monday, 14 May 2001 11:33:50 UTC