Q: urlopen and timeout

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Hwanjo Yu wrote:
> Although it may have the default timeout in the function, it seems to wait
> forever sometimes because of the unexpected web site's behavior.  Is there
> any way to set the timeout explicitly ?
> And,
> The socket function also doesn't have timeout parameter, so I don't have any
> idea when the socket connection function is gonna return.
> How to set timeout for these cases ?

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

Oleg.
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