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)