"with timeout" when sending Remote Events

Question

I have a script which accesses a dozen odd remote servers using "eppc://..." Finders and duplicates some files etc... as required by the script. The only problem with this is the script frequently hangs as if a server is not reachable it keeps on trying and fails to report it back as an error.
I have tried putting "with timeout...." etc.. but nothing seems to work. I have developed a workaround to run a separate script pinging all the machines and if all the machines come back with suitable trip times I allow the script to continue but this is not an ideal workaround - any other suggestions or experience with this problem?

Answer 1

Here's a copy/paste from a post some time back. Wish I could credit the original author, but I don't have the information.
This was written for 10.3.9 but may apply in your case also... (easy enough to revert if it doesn't help)
Jeff
So there is an issue with OS X Server, where OS X tells SquirrelMail that SSL is enabled, even when its not. This causes some strange problems, like when you send an email, in Safari the mail will send but you won't be forwarded back to the inbox. In FireFox, the mail is sent but you get some strange error -12281. Well the solution (hack) to this problem is to make SquirrelMail always use non SSL. The other solution is to actually configure and USE SSL. But for the hack:
Hack Away...
1) Open up this file
/usr/share/squirrelmail/functions/strings.php
2) Go to line 239 in the file. It should be a blank line, below it should be:
/* Get the hostname from the Host header or server config. */
3) Add the following to the blank line:
$proto = 'http://';
Thats it. That does it, just save and reload and SquirrelMail should now work properly. Alternativly, instead of adding that bit of code, you can instead comment out the block above line 239, so that line 216 is the last code before 239. That will also work.
This hack is done with 10.3.9 and SM 1.4.4. Other versions might have differnet results.