urllib2 slow for multiple requests

[Tomas Svarovsky]

On May 14, 11:57 am, "Richard Brodie" <R.Bro... at rl.ac.uk> wrote:
> "cgoldberg" <cgoldb... at gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:9ae58862-1cb2-4981-ae6a-0428c7684feb at z5g2000vba.googlegroups.com...
>
> > you aren't doing a read(), so technically you are just connecting to
> > the web server and sending the request but never reading the content
> > back from the socket.
>
> > But that is not the problem you are describing...
>
> It might be, if the local server doesn't scale well enough to handle
> 100 concurrent requests.

This is a good point, but then it would manifest regardless of the
language used AFAIK. And this is not the case, ruby and php
implementations are working quite fine.

Thanks for reply