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

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Fri Feb 9 06:31:55 CET 2007

"Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org> wrote:

I recently needed to access an HTTP URL with a timeout. I ended up monkey-patching httplib.HTTPConnection so that the connect() method has an optional second paramer, timeout, defaulting to None; if not None, a call to settimeout() is added right after successful creation of the socket. Does anybody else think this is a good idea? (Personally I think this should've been done years ago. :-) Shall I check it into the head?

I've done similar things to urllib in the past (also handling timeouts and insufficient data transfer rates).

Seems like a reasonable change to me. It also makes me think that I should switch to httplib (since all the urls I ever fetch are http).

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