threads and urllib

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"Andrew Ward" <winelight at spamcop.net> wrote in message news:<nkUc8.19043$kX6.133584 at NewsReader>...
> >         self.webpage = urllib.urlopen(self.url).read()
> 
> Yes, this can cause Python to hang (thread passim).
> 
> It *seems* that using httplib() instead *might* avoid the hang.
> 
> Andrew ward

it seems i might be having the same sort of problem...

i am writing a special (http) server using SimpleHTTPServer and when i
try to read from do_POST, it hangs...

any suggestions?

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etoffi