setsockopt and urllib

[Steve Holden]

Look for the timeoutsocket module by Timothy O'Malley <timo at alum.mit.edu> --
sorry I don't have a URL to hand.  This will raise errors on socket timeouts
in library code.

regards
 Steve


Frank Neuber <frank.neuber at gmx.de> wrote in message
news:slrn92moue.hc.frank.neuber at mars.private.de...
> Hi group,
> I have to set special timeouts on receive and send calls in conjunction
with
> urllib-calls.
> Is there a simple solution to do this without modifying the urllib itself.
> For Example:
> I wish to set the timeout to 60 s for the following command:
> (tmpfile, hdr) = urllib.urlretrive(urlname)
> It is possible to to this with the socks module call
> setsockopt(SOL_SOCKET,SO_RCVTIMEO, ttime) over the urllib module.
>
> thanks in advance
> Frank
>
>
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