Alarms in threads - how to get/mimic?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012160248520.7483-100000 at traal.eecs.berkeley.edu>,
Luca de Alfaro  <dealfaro at eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>I am trying to write a multi-threaded program to read web pages.  The
>program spawns (say) 10 threads, assigning to each thread a file to
>read with the ftp or http protocol; each thread reads it, and returns
>the info.
>
>The problem is that the threads sometimes hang for a very long time
>waiting for a connection (httplib seems to have very long timeouts??),
>whereas instead I don't care for the answer if it comes later than
>(say) a few seconds.

httplib does not timeout in its default state; the current best solution
is to download timeoutsocket.py.
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