[Python-Dev] Time-out in URL Open

[Guido van Rossum]

OK, you've convinced me. Now where's that SF patch you were promising? :-)

--Guido

On 7/5/06, Facundo Batista <facundobatista at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2006/7/4, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>:
>
> > > This affect all the sockets.
> >
> > So, assuming your app is single-threaded, set the timeout, call
> > urlopen(), and reset the timeout to None.
>
> No, it's multithreaded, :D
>
>
> > > And I hit the problem when servicing
> > > information with a web service (TCPServer), and I need to timeout the
> > > connection of the URLOpen *only*.
> >
> > That's not so easy even if you were to have a timeout parameter to
> > urlopen(). You'd have to implement that peculiarity in all the layers
> > (in this case, urllib and httplib; and possibly ftplib, gopherlib etc.
> > :-)
>
> Yes, it's not SO easy, because, as you said, you have to dig into the
> layers until you hit the actual socket creation and modify the timeout
> for that socket only.
>
> That's why I think that this should be handled in the standard library
> and not left to implement to whoever will need it, :)
>
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