http request timeout

[Markus Schaber]

Hi,

Garth Grimm <garth_grimm at hp.com> schrub:

> I would think that dealing with this failure mode would be fairly
> typical.  Have I missed an obvious
> built-in solution?  If there is none, what approaches have others used
> to best handle this in Python?

There already was the suggestion for the timeoutsocket, but another way 
might be to use select() to wait for more than one action. This way, 
one thread can wait for input on multiple connections, and e. G. for a 
message from a watchdog thread. Asynchroneous IO is useful in lots of 
cases, but somehow more difficult to program.

markus
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