socket wedged forever in recv()

[Peter Hansen]

Geoffrey Talvola wrote:
> 
> I have a Windows NT client application that uses httplib to make requests to
> a Windows NT server running Apache 2.0 serving up a cgi script.
> Unfortunately, if I reboot the Apache server, if a request is in-progress,
> the client will often wedge permanently.  I built a debug version of Python
> 2.2.2 and verified that the client is stuck in a call to recv() and will
> apparently never exit.  It's a little irritating that the client can't
> detect the situation and return from recv() with an error code at this
> point.  Does anyone know a way to get the client to notice that the server
> is gone?

Use the "select" module.

-Peter