urllib2 spinning CPU on read

[John J. Lee]

"kdotsky" <kdotsky at gmail.com> writes:

> > I didn't try looking at your example, but I think it's likely a bug
> > both in that site's HTTP server and in httplib.  If it's the same one
> > I saw, it's already reported, but nobody fixed it yet.
> >
> > http://python.org/sf/1411097
> >
> >
> > John
> 
> Thanks.  I tried the example in the link you gave, and it appears to be
> the same behavior.
> 
> Do you have any suggestions on how I could avoid this in the meantime?

Yes: read the recent messages on the tracker I linked to, and apply
the fix I suggest there.


John