Ben Sizer wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>Occasionally (perhaps 5% of the time) the following exception gets >>raised: >> >>(10054, 'Connection reset by peer') > > > Generally this just means the connection has closed through some > unusual means, perhaps by being turned off, or a network cable being > unplugged, or a timeout along the way, etc. 5% is a high figure, but > perhaps you connect to hosts that are unreliable for some reason. > > You don't have control over this really; just make sure you handle the > exception. Such is life, when dealing with networking. > Do note, though, that if you aren't using some means (threading, forking, etc) of handling the connections asynchronously then your server will normally only queue a very limited number of connections (usually 5 at most).
So if your service takes a while to run then it's possible that connection requests will be rejected when the queue is full, which might *possibly* result in the error you are seeing. Feel free to ignore this if you only have one client at a time. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
