How to catch Timeout::ERROR?

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Is there any way to catch Timeout::ERROR exception throw by timeout () ?

====[cut here]======
#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'open-uri'
require 'timeout'

begin
         open("http://6.6.6.6/"){}
rescue => e
         puts e.message
         puts "I'm still running"
end
====[and here]====

output
/sw/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:42:in `new': execution expired (Timeout::Error)
         from /sw/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:83:in `connect'
         from /sw/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:82:in `timeout'
         from /sw/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:55:in `timeout'
         from /sw/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:82:in `connect'
         from /sw/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:64:in `initialize'
         from /sw/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:430:in `open'
         from /sw/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:430:in `do_start'
         from /sw/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:419:in `start'
          ... 6 levels...
         from /sw/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:134:in `open_uri'
         from /sw/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:422:in `open'
         from /sw/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:85:in `open'
         from /Users/eck/test.rb:9

···

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ruby -v
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [powerpc-darwin8.0]

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2

Is there any way to catch Timeout::ERROR exception throw by timeout () ?

Timeout::Error

====[cut here]======
#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'open-uri'
require 'timeout'

begin
        open("http://6.6.6.6/"\){}
rescue => e

rescue Timeout::Error => e

        puts e.message
        puts "I'm still running"
end

Beware!

You should use a subclass of Timeout::Error when nesting timeouts (Net::HTTP has timeouts inside) so that you don't trap the wrong timeout in the wrong place and run forever:

irb(main):002:0> open('http://localhost:8080/'\)
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:43:in `rbuf_fill': execution expired (Timeout::Error)

···

On Dec 12, 2005, at 6:00 PM, Verestiuc Vlad wrote:

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