Socket timeouts for HTTP connections (httplib)?

[Peter Hansen]

nick wrote:
> 
> There were rumblings about Guido implementing this at a socket level
> in June 2002, but I've not been able to find anything since.
> Presumably this has not yet risen up into httplib either because the
> python.org documentation doesn't mention it.

Search for the word "socket" in this page:

http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/whatsnew/node18.html

-Peter