urllib2 timeout issue
Vincent Vande Vyvre
vincent.vandevyvre at swing.be
Wed Oct 16 06:04:22 EDT 2013
Le 16/10/2013 11:21, Jérôme a écrit :
> Hi all.
>
> I'm having troubles with urllib2 timeout.
>
> See the following script :
>
> ----------------------------
> import urllib2
> result = urllib2.urlopen("http://dumdgdfgdgmyurl.com/")
> print result.readline()
> ----------------------------
>
> If run on my Debian Wheezy computer, or on my Debian Squeeze server,
> the answer is instantaneous :
>
> [...]
> urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno -2] Name or service not known>
>
> When run on my Raspberry Pi with Raspian Wheezy, the answer is
> identical but it takes 10 seconds.
>
> I tried
>
> result = urllib2.urlopen("http://dumdgdfgdgmyurl.com/", timeout=5)
>
> but I get the same results : instantaneous on Debian, 10 secondes on
> RPi.
>
> I also added this, as suggested on some StackOverflow pages :
>
> import socket
> socket.setdefaulttimeout(5)
>
> and it didn't make any difference.
>
> In both cases, Python version is "Python 2.7.3".
>
> Am I missing something ?
>
> Thanks.
>
The url "dumdgdfgdgmyurl.com/" is just an example ?
If not, the result <urlopen error [Errno -2] Name or service not known>
is normal.
--
Vincent V.V.
Oqapy <https://launchpad.net/oqapy> . Qarte
<https://launchpad.net/qarte> . PaQager <https://launchpad.net/paqager>
More information about the Python-list
mailing list