[Python-Dev] Adding timeout option to httplib...connect()

[Josiah Carlson]

"Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org> wrote:
> 
> I recently needed to access an HTTP URL with a timeout. I ended up
> monkey-patching httplib.HTTPConnection so that the connect() method
> has an optional second paramer, timeout, defaulting to None; if not
> None, a call to settimeout() is added right after successful creation
> of the socket.
> 
> Does anybody else think this is a good idea? (Personally I think this
> should've been done years ago. :-) Shall I check it into the head?

I've done similar things to urllib in the past (also handling timeouts
and insufficient data transfer rates).

Seems like a reasonable change to me.  It also makes me think that I
should switch to httplib (since all the urls I ever fetch are http).

 - Josiah