stopping www::mechanize from exiting after a timeout

[incognito129]

I have a script using www::mechanize to fetch a few pages. However sometimes the sites are down and after mechanize timeouts on the site it exits completely instead of moving on. How do I get mechanize to not quit and continue on?

[Corion]

Searching for WWW::Mechanize retry returns WWW::Mechanize::Plugin::Retry. How did this module not work for you in the expected way?

[Anonymous Monk]

You can catch die's with eval {}, example

#!/usr/bin/perl --
use strict;
use warnings;
use WWW::Mechanize;
my $ua = WWW::Mechanize->new( autocheck => 1 );

for ( 1, 6 ){
    eval {
        $ua->get('die://die');
    1 } or print "$@\n";
}
__END__
Error GETing die://die: Protocol scheme 'die' is not supported at - li
+ne 9

Error GETing die://die: Protocol scheme 'die' is not supported at - li
+ne 9

Or turn autocheck off, and do your own checking.

[desemondo]

Based on the very limited info you've provided - its a bit hard to provide much help.

Maybe consider:
1. Paste your code thats 'exiting'
2. Provide the specific output thats being generated, or specificy at what point your code is exiting.

At a guess, it might be due to an exception thats being thrown in one of the modules that www::mechanize uses. If so, you can neutralise it via a block eval.