How to timeout in a function call

General Usage
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I am currently downloading some data from a remote server, however the connection may not always be stable and therefore the data loading might hang. Therefore, I would like break the connection and restart it after a certain period of time. How do I do this?

Say, I want to do:

NCDatasets.load!(OPeNDAP URL HERE,tmparray,:,:,1)

How do I set a condition outside such that if this function doesn’t finish executing in 10 seconds, I break the loop and try it again?

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Potentially useful:

Unless you can use download for this task.

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