Question

I know how to handle timeout on HTTP::Request operations when LWP::UserAgent is used, but as I need to use HTTP::Async module instead of the Perl module LWP::UserAgent, I am looking for alternative solution(s) to set timeout for async http request(s).

Answer 1

Have you read the documentation?

To set the default timeout for requests:

# When creating the object:
my $async = HTTP::Async->new( timeout => 300 ); # 5 minutes
# Changing it later:
$async->timeout(600); # 10 minutes

To change the timeout for a single request:

$async->add_with_opts( $request, { timeout => 600 } ); # 10 minutes

Update: It seems there’s a bug and the timeout attribute doesn’t actually work.