timeout in urllib.open()

[John J. Lee]

skip at pobox.com writes:

>     >> I believe this can only be set globally:
>     >> 
>     >> import socket
>     >> socket.setdefaulttimeout(seconds)
> 
>     Stefan> Uuuh this is no solution for me, because the website-checking
>     Stefan> tool is part of a very very big application running in an
>     Stefan> application server, so globally setting the timeout may break a
>     Stefan> lot of other things...
> 
> Can you try this patch:
> 
>     http://python.org/sf/723312
> 
> ?  It's against current CVS.  Also, it doesn't include urllib or urllib2
> changes, just httplib.  Getting this completed would be nice.

Great.  Added some comments, will try to write tests and urllib2 patch
later.


John