Ah -- thanks!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Hodel" <drbrain / segment7.net>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: http timeout errors

A read timeout is on an already established connection, this error seems
to come from the socket not being established at all.

It should be an exception like Errno::ETIMEDOUT (if you used #get)