FTP hangs with urllib.urlretrieve

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003072021420.23240-100000 at chi.pair.com>,
Michal Wallace (sabren) <sabren at manifestation.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Oleg Broytmann wrote:
>> 
>>    I am developing/running URL checker (sorry, yet another one :). And
>> found that I have consistent hangings on some FTP URLs.
>> 
>>    Here is test program I am using to retest my results - just URLopener
>> and urlretrieve, nothing magical; python is stock 1.5.2, hangs on all
>> platforms I am using - Pentium Linux, Sparc Solaris, Pentium FreeBSD:
>
>This is not limited to ftp urls... urllib just hangs sometimes.

I've submitted a patch that gives httplib.HTTP() a default timeout that
fixes these kinds of problems, but Guido hasn't accepted it yet.  If
someone wants to help me provide the info that Guido wants, I'd really
appreciate it.  Once that's done, it should be straightforward to patch
ftplib to have the same kind of timeout.
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