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KK99
KK99

Reputation: 1989

Possible to use timeout in WWW::Mechanize on https?

We have a Perl script which uses WWW::Mechanize to download content from a secured (https) website via our company proxy using POST action in WWW::Mechanize.

Sometimes this post action runs for hours for unknown reasons.

I want to control this. I checked for timeout but I also read in one of the post in Stackoverflow that it does not work with https websites.

Any idea how I can use the timeout mechanism?

I want to stop processing that link say after a minute or so to proceed further and not wait for hours together. Any help would be really appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 932

Answers (1)

daxim
daxim

Reputation: 39158

Use LWPx::ParanoidAgent and mix it into Mech.

$ua->timeout(10);

this is 10 seconds overall, from start to finish. not just between socket reads. and it includes all redirects. so attackers telling you to download from a malicious tarpit webserver can only stall you for $n seconds

Upvotes: 2

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