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

[Ben Laurie]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>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.

OK, so long as we're clear on the failure mode, its fine by me.

Cheers,

Ben.


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