httplib incredibly slow :-(

[Chris Withers]

David Robinow wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Chris Withers<chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
>> David Stanek wrote:
>>> Also on the same box where you run this script
>>> can you test with curl or wget?
>> It's a Windows box, so no :-(
> 
> Why not?
> 
> http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/
> http://curl.haxx.se/download.html

Fair point, but I don't see what this will achieve...

I've already established that the file downloads in seconds with 
[something else], so I'd like to understand why python isn't doing the 
same and fix the problem...

Chris

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