En Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:21:55 -0300, supercooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
escribió:

> I am downloading images using the script below. Sometimes it will go
> for 10 mins, sometimes 2 hours before timing out with the following
> error:
>
>     urllib.urlretrieve(fullurl, localfile)
> IOError: [Errno socket error] (10060, 'Operation timed out')
>
> I have searched this forum extensively and tried to avoid timing out,
> but to no avail. Anyone have any ideas as to why I keep getting a
> timeout? I thought setting the socket timeout did it, but it didnt.

You should do the opposite: timing out *early* -not waiting 2 hours- and  
handling the error (maybe using a queue to hold pending requests)

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Gabriel Genellina

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