Socket timeout

[Lee Jarvis]

I am using a TCPSocket and I want the script to restart if the
connection times out. I have tried doing it myself and searched around
everywhere for a solution but I have had no luck.. Any help would be
great

tia

Lee

 

[Francis Cianfrocca]

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I am using a TCPSocket and I want the script to restart if the
connection times out. I have tried doing it myself and searched around
everywhere for a solution but I have had no luck.. Any help would be
great

What do you mean by "the connection times out"? Do you mean that the
connection has no read or write activity for some interval of time?

If you need to do that, then the Ruby/EventMachine library has that ability.
You'll need to rearrange your code to go this route, so perhaps someone else
will have a less invasive solution. If not, then look at EventMachine.

 

[Lee Jarvis]

What do you mean by "the connection times out"? Do you mean that the
connection has no read or write activity for some interval of time?

Yes, basically

If you need to do that, then the Ruby/EventMachine library has that
ability.
You'll need to rearrange your code to go this route, so perhaps someone
else
will have a less invasive solution. If not, then look at EventMachine.

Uh, I am editing an old program of mine which is quite large, about
1.4k+ lines, so I am trying to do it the least invasive way possible.. I
appreciate your input so quickly though. Perhaps this is the only route.

Lee

 

[Yohanes Santoso]

Yes, basically

You can adjust the SO_RCVTIMEO and SO_SNDTIMEO socket options using
Socket#{get,set}sockopts.

However, they are susceptible to trickle attack. For example, if you
set the receive timeout to 30 seconds, then the sender can send just
one packet every 30 seconds, tying up resources on your end.

The proper solution requires application-level enforcement of
timeout. You can use the timeout library for the least invasive
mechanism to even changing the core mechanism to Ruby/EventMachine.


YS.

 

[Roger Pack]

If you're not worried about scaling then
Timeout::timeout(30) {
do stuff }

or
Thread.new {
sleep 30
if hasnt_done_anything
raise on it # scary!
end
}

maybe