ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can you please tell me what is the timeout value of httplib.HTTP?
>
> i.e. how long python will wait for a response in the below code?
>
> h = httplib.HTTP(self.url, 8080)
> h.putrequest('GET', '/sample/?url=' + self.url)
> h.endheaders()
HTTP per se does not define any timeout -- if self.url is correctly
resolved by DNS and accepts a TCP connection on port 8080, and then just
hangs forever, you'll be waiting. You can force timeouts yourself by
playing with socket.setdefaulttimeout(...) before you start the HTTP
interaction.
Alex
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