I have everything setup correctly. It works with other https sites fine,
except this because it is a very slow site.
Do you know if I call the perl script from a bourne shell script, will there
be a way to set a timeout inside the bourne shell script to terminate the
perl script??
Thanks
Jumana
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edward Moon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 4:12 PM
> To: Jumana Samara
> Subject: Re: timefetch-1.02
>
>
> The author's contact info should be in the file. As I recall,
> the script
> is also contains the documentation in POD format.
>
> Before you contact the author have you considered the following:
>
> * Do you have openssl & the required Perl modules installed?
> Support for
> HTTPS (i.e. encrypted communication) isn't available unless
> you have the
> appropriate libraries & modules installed.
>
> * Are your Perl modules up to date? In particular, the versions of
> HTML::Parse and HTML::TokeParse are important.
>
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Jumana Samara wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am using a script that I downloaded from CPAN, Web category.
> > It is called "timefetch-1.02"
> >
> > I am using this to monitor web pages. It worked great,
> except when I started
> > using the "time out option" to define a time out.
> > It works for some sites, but it doesn't work for some URLs like
> > https://www.qhome.net/ld/signup.jhtml
> >
> > It just hangs when I try to get that URL. I want to tell it
> to terminate if
> > it takes more than 5-10 seconds.
> >
> > I tried setting an alarm inside the script itself, but it
> didn't work.
> >
> > Does anyone using that script, or knows how can I get support on it.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Jumana Samara
> >
>
