httplib incredibly slow :-(

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.133.1250270175.2903.python-list at python.org>,
Chris Withers  <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
>Aahz wrote:
>>
>> What do you need to know for a decent example?
>
>Simple download of a file from a url with some auth headers added would 
>do me.

Well, I've hacked up some sample code from my company's codebase:

# !!! UNTESTED !!!
c = pycurl.Curl()
c.setopt(pycurl.URL, url)
c.setopt(pycurl.USERPWD, "%s:%s" % (user, pwd))
c.setopt(pycurl.FOLLOWLOCATION, 1)
c.setopt(pycurl.MAXREDIRS, 5)
c.setopt(pycurl.CONNECTTIMEOUT, 30)
f = StringIO()
c.setopt(pycurl.WRITEDATA, f)
c.perform()
c.close()
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