httplib incredibly slow :-(

[Chris Withers]

Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> writes on Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:20:37 +0100:
>> ...
>> 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...
> 
> A profile might help to understand what the time is used for.
> 
> As almost all operations are not done in Python itself ("httplib" is really
> a very tiny wrapper above a socket), a C level profile may be necessary
> to understand the behaviour.

Actually, the problem *was* in Python:

http://bugs.python.org/issue2576

Found and fixed :-)

Chris

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