Sounds great - now what am I doing wrong?
#!/usr/bin/perl
use LWP::Simple;
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n<html><body bgcolor=white>\n";
local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die "alarm\n" }; # NB: \n required
eval {
alarm 4;
$content = get("http://select.worldpay.com/wcc/info?op=rates&instI
+d=36128");
alarm 0;
};
if ($@) {
die unless $@ eq "alarm\n"; # propagate unexpected errors
# timed out
print "timed out<BR>";
}
else {
# didn't
print "succeeded<BR>";
}
if($content) {
print $content;
}
else {
print "Durrr";
}
It's still hanging. I haven't really understood how to use SIGALARM - I am just coding-by-numbers at the moment hoping that understanding will dawn.
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