Unfortunately I am not wrong. The hanging behaviour is real. The underlying reason is LWP::Simple uses (for http) the _http_trivial_get() function, not LWP::UserAgent. This implements a 60 second IO::Socket::INET make connection timeout, but no timeout on data recieve. Modifying the test code to use LWP::Simple proves the point (LWP::Simple will wait 500 seconds to get the data - it gets an instant socket, then nothing for 500 seconds). This function remains active in the latest LWP::Simple.

I agree it should really be a subclass of LWP::UserAgent but for http it is not. The timeout behaviour for LWP::Simple and LWP::UserAgent could IMHO use some work.

C:\>type server.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
use IO::Socket;
use IO::Select;
$lsn = IO::Socket::INET->new( Listen    => 1,
                        LocalAddr => 'localhost',
                        LocalPort => 9000,);

my $client = new IO::Select( $lsn );

while( my @ready = $client->can_read ) {
    for my $fh (@ready) {
        if($fh == $lsn) {
            warn "Accepted new socket\n";
            my $new = $lsn->accept;
            $client->add($new);
        }
        else {
            # Process socket
            warn "Getting data\n";
            $data = <$fh>;  # yeah yeah
            warn "Got $data\nDoing nothing forever!\n";
            my @response = split '', "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\n\nHello World!\
+n";
            sleep 500;
            print {$fh} @response;
            $client->remove($fh);
            $fh->close();
        }
    }
}


C:\>type lwp.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
$|++;
use LWP::Simple;
$start = time();
print "Begin at $start\n";
$response = get('http://localhost:9000/');
$end = time();
my $time = $end - $start;
print "Done at $end\nTook $time seconds\nGot:\n$response\n";



C:\>perl lwp.pl
Begin at 1087868116
Done at 1087868616
Took 500 seconds
Got:
Hello World!


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