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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Jul 4 23:58:04 CEST 2006


On 7/4/06, Facundo Batista <facundobatista at gmail.com> wrote:

2006/7/3, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>:

> To fake things like this, socket.setdefaulttimeout() was added, though > I don't know if it actually works. Have you tried that? This affect all the sockets.

So, assuming your app is single-threaded, set the timeout, call urlopen(), and reset the timeout to None.

And I hit the problem when servicing information with a web service (TCPServer), and I need to timeout the connection of the URLOpen only.

That's not so easy even if you were to have a timeout parameter to urlopen(). You'd have to implement that peculiarity in all the layers (in this case, urllib and httplib; and possibly ftplib, gopherlib etc. :-)

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