Timing out URLs

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Tue, 23 May 2000, Ty K. Kroll wrote:
>    Question: Is there any way to set a time-out interval when reading URLs.

   There are many. All are not so simple. Patches accepted.

> I use urlopen to fetch the pages, but some end up hanging when I hit a slow
> moving page. Is there any way to avoid this? Thanks. -Ty

   Possible ways: use multiprocessing (forking or multithreading); use
non-blocking sockets and select(); use asyncore library.

Oleg.            (All opinions are mine and not of my employer)
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