[Python-Dev] the new 2.3a1 settimeout() with httplib and SSL (original) (raw)

Geoffrey Talvola gtalvola@nameconnector.com
Mon, 27 Jan 2003 11:59:56 -0500

Guido van Rossum [mailto:guido@python.org] wrote:

Hm, when I added the timeout feature, I didn't think of SSL at all. I imagine that SSL gets an error and keeps retrying immediately, rather than using select() to block until more data is available.

Part of this is that this simply doesn't work for SSL -- you shouldn't do that. (Sorry if you want it -- it's beyond my capabilities to hack this into the SSL code.) Part of this is that the SSL code should refuse a socket that's in nonblocking mode, or perhaps should restore blocking mode; I'm not sure. Anyway, please do enter a bug report. (A patch would be even cooler!)

I entered a bug report. I'll look at the source and see if I can come up with a patch.