[Python-Dev] Time-out in URL Open (original) (raw)

John J Lee jjl at pobox.com
Mon Jul 3 23:57:36 CEST 2006

On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Guido van Rossum wrote:

To fake things like this, socket.setdefaulttimeout() was added, though I don't know if it actually works. Have you tried that? [...]

It works. I think there's some issue with SSL, though (can't seem to find the issue now).

Of course, feeding through the timeout to the individual protocol modules would be a good thing.

John