Trouble with httplib and IRIX

[basv at sara.nl]

In article <7g3sgs$87n$1 at nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
  basv at sara.nl wrote:
> In article <3724CF13.C4680904 at bioreason.com>,
>   Andrew Dalke <dalke at bioreason.com> wrote:
> > basv at sara.nl said:
> > >  I'm running python 1.5.2 and running it on IRIX 6.5.3 systems.
> > > ...
> > >  I have the following problem when i'm trying to connect to an
> > >  non-existing machine the program hangs forever.
> >
> > I don't get that behaviour using 1.5.2c1 or 1.5.1 on either of
> > our 6.5.2m machines.

  This is a bug in 6.5.3, ping and telnet also hangs forever. I just
  phoned SGI and they said that it will be fixed in 6.5.4


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