Web Crawler - Python or Perl?

[Chuck Rhode]

On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:47:59 -0700, subeen wrote:

> You can avoid the problem using the following code:

> import socket

> timeout = 300 # seconds
> socket.setdefaulttimeout(timeout)

Yes, I tried that, too, but I forget what went wrong with it.
Perhaps, the socket kept up the handshake even though the download
stalled.

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