Daniel Martin wrote: > Does this improve noticeably if you use the read_nonblock suggestion > given earlier in the thread? Say: Hi Daniel, I tested this earlier ... but my version of Ruby doesn't have read_nonblock, unfortunately. I haven't had a chance to pull down 1.8.5 and re-test. Additionally, if I were to do so, I'd need to find a new workaround method. As mentioned above, my OverrideInternetMessageIO class does not seem to function in > ruby-1.8.2. So that makes a nice catch-22. Of couse I could hand edit the net/http classes, which would suffice for an academic test. In the real world I can't run around patching people's net/http for them :( Taking a step back for a moment - is there a Ruby bugzilla system or equivalent, where such problems can be logged and prioritised? I would be happy to do the grunt work of submitting the patch, now that the solution is pretty clear. Regards, Luke. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.