[Python-Dev] the new 2.3a1 settimeout() with httplib and SSL

[Guido van Rossum]

> Doesn't seem quite right to me yet - the problem is that if data arrives 
> 1 byte at a time with just less than the timeout between each byte, then 
> you can get n*timeout as the actual timeout (where n is potentially very 
> large). You need to reduce the timeout after each select, surely?

I don't think that's a big deal.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)