Timing out a BaseHTTPServer read?

[Roy Smith]

I've got a subclass of BaseHTTPServer, and I'd like to get the
handle_request()  method to time-out.  Any way to do that?  Lacking that,
any way to wrap the handle_request() call in some kind of time-out
wrapper?

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Roy Smith <roy at popmail.med.nyu.edu>
New York University School of Medicine