Making HTTP requests using Twisted

[Fredrik Lundh]

"rzimerman" wrote:

> Is Twisted the best library for me to be using? I do like Twisted, but
> it seems more suited to batch mode operations. Is there some way that I
> could continue registering url requests while the reactor is running?
> Is there a way to specify a time out per page request, rather than for
> a batch of pages requests?

there are probably ways to solve this with Twisted, but in case you want a
simpler alternative, you could use Python's standard asyncore module and
the stuff described here:

    http://effbot.org/zone/effnews.htm

especially

    http://effbot.org/zone/effnews-1.htm#storing-the-rss-data
    http://effbot.org/zone/effnews-3.htm#managing-downloads

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