FTP hangs with urllib.urlretrieve

[Michal Wallace (sabren)]

On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Oleg Broytmann wrote:

> Hello!
> 
>    I am developing/running URL checker (sorry, yet another one :). And
> found that I have consistent hangings on some FTP URLs.
> 
>    Here is test program I am using to retest my results - just URLopener
> and urlretrieve, nothing magical; python is stock 1.5.2, hangs on all
> platforms I am using - Pentium Linux, Sparc Solaris, Pentium FreeBSD:


This is not limited to ftp urls... urllib just hangs sometimes.

I have a bot that uses alarm(), plus some code I found on
comp.lang.python's archives.. but it still hangs on occasion. I have
no clue how to fix it.. And wound up just writing a second cron job
that would come by and kill hung versions. :/


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Cheers,

- Michal
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