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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Feb 9 09:57:51 CET 2007

Guido van Rossum schrieb:

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?

Please also consider #723312, which is more general, but also more outdated.

Regards, Martin

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