Patch: httplib.py default timeout

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <14440.48375.677822.934000 at dolphin.mojam.com>,
Skip Montanaro  <skip at mojam.com> wrote:
>
>I understand the motivation for the timeout, but shouldn't the default be to
>not timeout at all:
>
>    defaultTimeout = 0		# wait forever
>    ...
>    def connect(self, host, port = 0, timeout = defaultTimeout):
>
>?  Although timeouts are very useful, they are hardly the norm.  Your change
>would break code that nominally works now because exceptions could get
>raised where none are expected.

Nope.  Any code that currently uses httplib *HAS* to catch exceptions or
break when the actual socket connect call fails (you'll note that the
socket options get set *after* self.sock.connect()).  See my other posts
in this thread for more info.
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