[Python-Dev] Adding timeout option to httplib...connect() (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Feb 9 21:08:26 CET 2007

On 2/9/07, Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> wrote:

On Friday 09 February 2007 08:52, skip at pobox.com wrote: > In principle it's probably a fine idea. We should consider if it's > possible to develop a uniform approach to timeouts for all the libraries > that use sockets though. Otherwise you run the risk of doing it in > different ways for different libraries and having to make a (small, but > annoying) semantic leap when going from, say, httplib to smtpllib or > ftplib.

Agreed. In the meanwhile, there's socket.setdefaulttimeout(), which has proved quite useful.

Didn't work for me, since my ap is a multi-threaded webserver and I only want one specific type of request to time out.

I'm not going to change ftplib.py and all the others.

I do think it's relevant to decide whether the timeout should be passed to the constructor or to the connect() method. I think it may be better to pass the timeout to the constructor.

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr.

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