Cannot get timeout to work properly with net http in Ruby - ruby

Question

I am having issues with the timeout of my HTTP Get requests and have tried several things to get it working with no success. Here's my get_request function:
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'
def get_request(url, headers = "")
uri = URI.parse(url)
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
unless headers.empty?
headers.each { |key, value| request[key] = value }
end
if uri.port == 443
if #proxy
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, #proxy_ip, #proxy_port, :use_ssl => true, :verify_mode => OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE) { |http|
http.request(request)
}
else
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => true, :verify_mode => OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE) { |http|
http.request(request)
}
end
else
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port) { |http|
http.request(request)
}
end
if response.code.to_i == 302 or response.code.to_i == 301
get_request(response["Location"])
else
return response
end
return response
end
I have tried inserting:
http.read_timeout = 3
right before each of these lines:
http.request(request)
but this does not seem to work. The script still hangs for a good 20+ seconds.
I have also tried to insert:
request.read_timeout = 3
right below:
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
but this still does not work. I just simply want the script to stop the GET request after 3 seconds, but after placing a puts "Loading get request" line after the method starts, I notice that the request still takes a solid 10+ seconds.
This suggestion has been posted in several areas, but it just doesn't seem to be working for me.

Answer 1

I use open-uri fot that reason, never had a problem with that.
The method below starts a procedure on a Tomcat server.
The response happens to take some time depending on the load on the server.
Before it failed sometimes.
def start_sending(url)
require 'open-uri'
open(url, :read_timeout => 5 * 60) do |response|
# if there is a response it always contains "Ok" for this url
if response.read[/Return: Ok/i]
log "sending ok"
return true
else
log "error sending, no confirmation received\n#{response.read}"
return false
end
end
rescue => e
log_error("#{e.message}\n#{e.backtrace}")
end