BaseHTTPServer get_request not called till first request

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 18:35 -0800, yousay wrote:
> On Jan 13, 1:38 am, Adam Tauno Williams <awill... at opengroupware.us>
> wrote:
> > Looking at <http://code.activestate.com/recipes/425210/> and
> > <http://code.activestate.com/recipes/499376/> as examples I've attempted
> > to create a BaseHTTPServer class that times-out accept() ever X seconds
> > to check some other work.  This seems to work well, but only once the
> > HTTPServer object has received its first request.  Up until the first
> > request get_request() is not invoked and not timeout occurs.
> > class HTTPServer(BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer):
> >     def server_bind(self):
> >         BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer.server_bind(self)
> >         self.socket.settimeout(1)
> >         self._shutdown = False
> >     def get_request(self):
> >         while not self._shutdown:
> >             try:
> >                 print ' HTTP worker {0} waiting.'.format(self.pid)
> >                 self.log.debug('Waiting for connection...')
> >                 s, a = self.socket.accept()
> >                 s.settimeout(None)
> >                 return (s, a)
> >             except socket.timeout:
> >                 /// do other work ///
> >         return None, None
> > The "HTTP worker" message is not seen until the server has taken a
> > request, then it seems to dutifully do the timeout.
> your class Name is the same to the superClass,may be have influence

Nope, changed the name of the class (cleaned out all the *.pyc files),
and the initial wait still does not time out.