How to change the Timeout::Error threshold for open_uri

How to change the Timeout::Error threshold for open_uri - Ruby Forum:

> Does anyone know how to fix this? I want it to wait longer for > the web server to respond. Look in the docs/code and you shall find... OpenURI wraps net/http and net/https Looking in net/http finds these accessor methods: # Seconds to wait until connection is opened. # If the HTTP object cannot open a connection in this many seconds, # it raises a TimeoutError exception. attr_accessor :open_timeout # Seconds to wait until reading one block (by one read(2) call). # If the HTTP object cannot open a connection in this many seconds, # it raises a TimeoutError exception. attr_reader :read_timeout Maybe that would help. Mikel

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