[Python-Dev] socket timeouts and httplib

[Skip Montanaro]

    Jeremy> I ask because some simple httplib tests aren't working as
    Jeremy> expected with timeouts turned on.  I'm also curious because the
    Jeremy> socket documentation says you shouldn't mix timeouts and
    Jeremy> makefile(), and httplib uses makefile().

In theory, the change I made to socket.py a couple months ago to always use
its _socketobject (and thus _fileobject) class should allow timeouts to be
used with makefile.  I'd like to know if (and why) you're apparently not
getting that code.

    Jeremy> When I do have a small timeout and a slow server, I sometimes see an
    Jeremy> error like this:

    ...

    Jeremy>     self.connect()
    Jeremy>   File "/home/jeremy/src/python/dist/src/Lib/httplib.py", line 546, in connect
    Jeremy>     raise socket.error, msg
    Jeremy> IOError: [Errno socket error] (114, 'Operation already in progress')

Do you perhaps need to cvs up?  (Or have you modified your copy of
httplib.py?)  I'm cvs up'd and line 546 is the "def close" line two lines
after the above raise statement.

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