urllib.urlopen: how to check the time of connection?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <ABhKfmveHT at plet.ls.ac.ru>,
Igor V. Pletnev <plet at plet.ls.ac.ru> wrote:
>
>could somebody advise on any [platform independent] idiom/hint to monitor the
>time of [http] connection by urllib.urlopen? It often appears too lengthy,
>and I would like to check/break out at some upper limit.

If it's checking you want, you'll have to rewrite urllib yourself.  If
you simply want to time out the socket if there's no activity for a
certain period of time, look at timeoutsocket.py:

http://www.timo-tasi.org/python/timeoutsocket.py
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