Guido> Didn't work for me, since my ap is a multi-threaded webserver and
Guido> I only want one specific type of request to time out.
Understood.
Guido> I'm not going to change ftplib.py and all the others.
Also understood. This has, as far as I know, been the response of everybody
who has encountered this problem before. Most people are only interested in
a single protocol (or module) and therefore aren't motivated to change/fix
the other protocols which could benefit from timeouts. After all, who
really wants to update gopherlib? So there is sits.
Guido> I do think it's relevant to decide whether the timeout should be
Guido> passed to the constructor or to the connect() method. I think it
Guido> may be better to pass the timeout to the constructor.
Another thing to consider is how this change might percolate up to
urllib/urllib2. (I advocate leaving urllib alone, but urllib2 should
probably grow a timeout feature.)
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