comp.lang.ruby

Carl Youngblood

9/23/2003 11:22:00 PM

Was this just a stupid question or does nobody know the answer? Or
another option I guess would be that everyone is too busy.

Carl Youngblood wrote:
> I''m trying to rescue a TimeoutError in Net::HTTP''s get and post methods,
> but it''s not working. I noticed some postings about how the rescue
> catch-all didn''t work any more for TimeoutErrors, but I can''t even
> explicitly rescue this error. I know the page is available and that
> retrying will work, in this case, and all I want is a quick and dirty
> way of scraping some web pages, but this error brings down my script.
> Here''s my code:
>
> begin
> resp, data = h.post(''/tsd_listings/tsd_search.fpl'', postdata, headers)
> rescue TimeoutError => e
> retry
> end
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Carl Youngblood
>
> P.S. I''m using Ruby 1.8.0
>