httplib incredibly slow :-(

[Chris Withers]

David Stanek wrote:
> I tried to reproduce this, but I could not. Could you paste in the
> output of your script? 

Not sure how that'll help, but sure:

2009-08-11 21:27:59.153000
request: 0:00:00.109000
response: 0:00:00.109000
read: 0:24:31.266000

 > Also on the same box where you run this script
> can you test with curl or wget?

It's a Windows box, so no :-(
But it really does download in a few seconds with IE, and 20min+ using 
the script I included...

Chris

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