p. wrote:
i'm using urllib2 in python 2.4
wondering how people typically deal with the case in which a download
is too slow. setting the socket timeout only covers those cases where
there is no response in the socket for whatever the timeout period is.
what if, however, i'm getting bits back but want simply to bail out if
the total time to download takes too long?
i'm trying to avoid creating a whole other thread if possible?
Don't try to download all the data in one go, but do it a chunk at a
time. If you calculate that it would take too long to complete, then stop.
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