Re: timeout

From: "Gisle Aas" <[email protected]>
> The $ua->timeout() will abort a connection attempt that takes more
> than the given number of seconds, but before LWP start the connect
> call, it looks up the hostname which can take time that's not limited
> by LWP.  After the connection has been established, the timeout value
> is used to terminate requests on sockets with no activity (data coming
> back) for the given amount of time.  But as long as some data comes in
> at least every timeout sec LWP will keep on processing the requests.

Thank you Gisle. Do you know if I can detect if there is no network 
connection or if the requested domain was not found, using other methods 
before trying to make the request using LWP?

Thank you.

Octavian