xmlrpclib RPC calls sometimes hang

[Simrod Furman]

I'm writing a xmlrpclib client in Python 2.1 using xmlrpclib 0.9.9 on
Windows NT. I'm having a problem however, since the RPC call through
xmlrpclib is a blocking call, if there are any problems during the function
call such as a dropped modem or a problem on the XML-RPC server, the RPC
call wedges. As far as I can tell, xmlrpclib just hangs inside the RPC call.

I'm also using SSL from the M2Crypto library as a plug in the 'transport'
argument to xmlrpc.Server()

I've heard the suggestion to use timeout sockets from here: 

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/python-announce/935327

as a way to add this functionality in, but I think it would require me to
modify xmlrpclib.

Question 1: Is there a way to get xmlrpclib to timeout and throw an
exception after a specified amount of time?

Question 2: Has anyone tried xmlrpclib, SSL, and timeout sockets in Python
2.2?

--Simrod 

Simrod Furman
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