[Python-Dev] Adding timeout option to httplib...connect()

[Guido van Rossum]

You're not helping, Skip. Can you spend a minute looking at urllib2
and seeing how the two variants of my proposal (pass to constructor
vs. pass to connect()) would impact on it?

--Guido

On 2/9/07, skip at pobox.com <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>     Guido> Didn't work for me, since my ap is a multi-threaded webserver and
>     Guido> I only want one specific type of request to time out.
>
> Understood.
>
>     Guido> I'm not going to change ftplib.py and all the others.
>
> Also understood.  This has, as far as I know, been the response of everybody
> who has encountered this problem before.  Most people are only interested in
> a single protocol (or module) and therefore aren't motivated to change/fix
> the other protocols which could benefit from timeouts.  After all, who
> really wants to update gopherlib?  So there is sits.
>
>     Guido> I do think it's relevant to decide whether the timeout should be
>     Guido> passed to the constructor or to the connect() method. I think it
>     Guido> may be better to pass the timeout to the constructor.
>
> Another thing to consider is how this change might percolate up to
> urllib/urllib2.  (I advocate leaving urllib alone, but urllib2 should
> probably grow a timeout feature.)
>
> Skip
>


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