What is the timeout value of HTTP

[Alex Martelli]

ken <ken.carlino at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can you please tell me what is the timeout value of httplib.HTTP?
> 
> i.e. how long python will wait for a response in the below code?
> 
>    h = httplib.HTTP(self.url, 8080)
>         h.putrequest('GET', '/sample/?url=' + self.url)
>         h.endheaders()

HTTP per se does not define any timeout -- if self.url is correctly
resolved by DNS and accepts a TCP connection on port 8080, and then just
hangs forever, you'll be waiting.  You can force timeouts yourself by
playing with socket.setdefaulttimeout(...) before you start the HTTP
interaction.


Alex