brian <bsl04 / uark.edu> wrote in message news:<405A219D.2070505 / uark.edu>...
> How can I alter the TCPSocket connect timeout?  If I wanted less than 
> whatever it uses, I could use timeout(), but if I want more time?

Ive used something like this before (untested)

require 'socket'
include 'socket'

class Socket

    def setTimeOut( t)
        @timeOut =t
    end
end



I dont have the code here, so it could be way off....