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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sat Feb 10 20:42:55 CET 2007

On 2/10/07, skip at pobox.com <skip at pobox.com> wrote:

Guido, I looked at urllib2 and quickly gave up. I have no idea how that code works (where is a lower level library's connection object instantiated, for example?). I presume with timeouts in the lower level libraries someone who knows how urllib2 works will be able to graft timeouts onto it without too much work.

Thanks for looking anyway! I had a quick look myself; I think it relies on the implicit call to connect() in the HTTPConnection class's request() method. This answers my question: the timeout should be passed to the HTTPConnection constructor which stores it in an instance variable just like host and port, and then connect() will get it from there.

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