On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 9:06 PM, <exar...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: > On 03:11 pm, j...@jcea.es wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 13/04/10 04:03, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: >> >>> On 12 Apr, 11:19 pm, j...@jcea.es wrote: >>> >>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>> Hash: SHA1 >>>> >>>> On 04/13/2010 12:47 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >>>> >>>>> Jesus Cea <jcea <at> jcea.es> writes: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> PS: "socket.setdefaulttimeout()" is not enough, because it could >>>>>> shutdown a perfectly functional connection, just because it was idle >>>>>> for >>>>>> too long. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> The socket timeout doesn't shutdown anything. It just puts a limit on >>>>> how much >>>>> time recv() and send() can block. Then it's up to you to detect >>>>> whether the >>>>> server is still alive (for example by pinging it through whatever >>>>> means the >>>>> application protocol gives you). >>>>> >>>> >>>> A regular standard library (let say, poplib) would abort, after getting >>>> the timeout exception. >>>> >>>>> 4. Modify client libraries to accept a new optional socket-like object >>>>>> as an optional parameter. This would allow things like transparent >>>>>> compression or encryption, or to replace the socket connection by >>>>>> anything else (read/write to shared memory or database, for example). >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> This could be useful too. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I have been thinking about this for years. Do you actually think this >>>> could be formally proposed?. >>>> >>> >>> Every once in a while I make a little bit more progress on the PEP I'm >>> working on for this. If you want to talk more about this, you can find >>> me in #python-dev or #twisted on freenode. >>> >>> Jean-Paul >>> >> >> Jean-Paul, I would like to have this for 3.2. How is the PEP going?. >> > > It's still little more than an outline. You can see it here: > > http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/ProtocolPEP > > And if you're interested in helping, we can figure out a way to do that > (you can have edit permission on the wiki or we can move the document > elsewhere, whatever). > > Jean-Paul > > This seems like an interesting idea to me. I would like to figure out some way I could help with the PEP. If you move the document, could you please keep me updated on the new location?
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