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

Facundo Batista facundobatista at gmail.com
Wed Jul 5 17:51:47 CEST 2006


2006/7/4, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>:

> This affect all the sockets.

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

No, it's multithreaded, :D

> 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. :-)

Yes, it's not SO easy, because, as you said, you have to dig into the layers until you hit the actual socket creation and modify the timeout for that socket only.

That's why I think that this should be handled in the standard library and not left to implement to whoever will need it, :)

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