[Patches] httplib.py timeout

[Fredrik Lundh]

> Moshe, having 'no timeout' is just as much an assumption about how =
software
> should behave as having a sixty second timeout.  You assume that the
> software 'should' just hang for as long as it takes.  Aahz believes =
that
> anything over 60 seconds is likely to be a bug.  Both views are =
plausible.

changing from no timeout to a given default timeout
may break working programs (been there, done that,
can be really confusing).

how do standard socket implementations behave
today?  is 60 seconds a good approximation of how
the most impatient implementations behave today?

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