title: Preventing timeout when connecting to a URL
body: <p>I want to see the time taken to access a url using <code>Benchmark</code> in the code below. I also tried to do the same thing without benchmark. That is, get time at start of test and end of test, subtract the two to get the time. Both methods end in the same timeout error. </p>
  
  <pre><code>require 'open-uri'
  require 'benchmark'
  
  response = nil
  puts "opening website with benchmark..."
  puts Benchmark.measure{
    response = open('http://mywebsite.com')
  }
  
  puts "Done !"
  status = response.status
  puts status
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>opening website with benchmark...
  C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:64:in `rbuf_fill': execution expired (Timeout::Error)
      from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:134:in `rbuf_fill'
      from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:116:in `readuntil'
      from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:126:in `readline'
      from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:2028:in `read_status_line'
      from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:2017:in `read_new'
      from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1051:in `request'
      from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:248:in `open_http'
      from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:543:in `start'
      from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:242:in `open_http'
      from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:616:in `buffer_open'
      from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:164:in `open_loop'
      from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:162:in `catch'
      from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:162:in `open_loop'
      from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:132:in `open_uri'
      from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:518:in `open'
      from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:30:in `open'
      from C:/code/test.rb:7
      from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb:293:in `measure'
      from C:/code/test.rb:6
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I try to connect to this URL in my browser, it takes about 2-3 minutes to access, all the time. </p>
  
  <p>I searched google, but found no useful answers to my problem. I know that I have to 
  change the timeout setting for something, but not able to figure out which one. Can someone please help ?</p>