Timeout for urllib.urlopen(...)

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Gilles Lenfant wrote:
> Has any of you any hint for making like urllib.urlopen(...) but with a
> TimeOut ?
> I'm making a script to check if the Web application server is running.
> If it's down... the urllib.urlopen(...) waits for a reply till... there's no
> more power supply.

   First thing to try is http://www.timo-tasi.org/python/timeoutsocket.py

Oleg.
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