How to handle timed out connections

[Aahz Maruch]

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In article <38CA617C.37948FB9 at rhk.dk>,
Lars Hoeyrup Jensen  <robinhat at rhk.dk> wrote:
>
>I have a program that tries to connect to a certain web page with
>urlopen(). Sometimes the page doesn't respond: if I try to open it in
>Netscape, after a couple of minutes I get a message like this:

There are two separate problems here:

* You need to use try/except to catch errors

* You need an upgrade to httplib to make it timeout automatically when
there's a problem (I've got a patch, but Guido hasn't accepted it yet).
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