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

[Guido van Rossum]

> The point is that in the standard case, a byte on the network is a byte 
> in the application, so you either get a byte or you time out in the 
> specified time.
> 
> In the SSL case, you could neither get a byte nor time out, at the 
> application layer, until much, much later than you thought you specified.
> 
> This seems broken to me, and POLA would suggest I'm right (i.e. if I say 
> time out in 1 second, I'll be pretty astonished when that turns into a day).

Any buffering scheme built on top of recv() has this problem.  Tough.

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