FTP hangs on close

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <Pine.LNX.4.21.0003090908560.31845-100000 at fep132.fep.ru>,
Oleg Broytmann  <phd at phd.russ.ru> wrote:
>On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Makhno wrote:
>> 
>> The client is probably waiting for a 'goodbye' message from the server,
>> which, due to a botched server configuration (or maybe the admin's choice)
>> is never sent, so the client waits indefinately.
>
>   On the other hand - it seems the program hangs hard - I cannot kill it
>with ^C - only "kill $pid" can help. I cannot believe ftplib is waiting
>"goodby" so hard :)

Yes, it is, because it's not in Python, it's in a kernel socket call.
I've run into this many times with urllib against HTTP.  Using a timeout
is the only answer.
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