[Python-Dev] timeout options in high-level networking modules

[Jeremy Hylton]

Yup.  I just went through a similar exercise with urllib2.  It wasn't
too hard to plumb through a different HTTPHandler that set the
timeout, but it would be much nicer as a default option.  It seems
like a 30 minute project; might fit in an "odds and ends" sprint.

Jeremy

On 12/22/05, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
>
> Yesterday, I needed to make a web request in a program (actually a test)
> that could block indefinately, so I needed to set a socket timeout.
> Unfortunately, AFAICT none of urllib, urllib2, httplib provide options to set
> the timeout on the sockets they use.  I ended up having to roll my own
> code to make the request.
>
> It would be nice if high-level network modules, like the ones mentioned
> above, had options to provide a timeout.  (For example, urlopen could
> grow an optional timout argument.)
>
> Thoughts?
>
> If we think this is a good idea, then someone who has time could start chipping
> away at it.  I'm happy to work on this *if* I can find time.  This would make
> a nice easy sprint project at PyCon too.
>
> Jim
>
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