On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:33:30 +0200, Anders Sandvig
wrote:
> >From the top of my head, I can come up with three (four) ways of
> properly solving the issue:
>
> 1) Documenting the timeout behavior and describing the above hack in
> the httplib documentation.
>
> 2) Modify HTTPConnection.connect(
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Anders Sandvig
wrote:
> 2) Modify HTTPConnection.connect() to set the timeout on the socket
> object after it has been created (using the same timeout as given on
> the HTTPConnection constructor).
It looks like urllib2 in trunk and urllib.request in py3k are als
Consider the following code for retreieving a web page using httplib:
def get_url(hostname, port, url, timeout=5):
con = httplib.HTTPConnection(hostname, port, timeout)
con.request("GET", url)
res = con.getresponse()
data = res.read()
return res, data
As expe
