urllib2 spinning CPU on read

[kdotsky]

> I didn't try looking at your example, but I think it's likely a bug
> both in that site's HTTP server and in httplib.  If it's the same one
> I saw, it's already reported, but nobody fixed it yet.
>
> http://python.org/sf/1411097
>
>
> John

Thanks.  I tried the example in the link you gave, and it appears to be
the same behavior.

Do you have any suggestions on how I could avoid this in the meantime?