Hi, I proposed a patch to add timeout to StreamReader read methods: http://bugs.python.org/issue23236
The idea is to reset the timeout each time we receive new data. It is less strict than wait(read(), timeout) which restricts the total duration. The subtle risk is that a server can "DoS" a client by sending slowly the reply by packets of a single byte every N seconds. But you want combine the two timeouts. For example, wait(readline(timeout=5.0), 60.0) fails if the server takes longer than 5 seconds to send data or if the server doesn't send a newline before 60 seconds. What do you think? Is it an useful feature? -- On Python <= 3.4, socket.sendall() resets the timeout each time that we succeeded to send at least one byte. The behaviour changed in Python 3.5: the timeout is not more reset, it's now the maximum total duration to send all bytes. I found and fixed this when I worked on the PEP 475 (EINTR). Related discussion on python-dev: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2015-April/139001.html There is also a pending patch to add a recvall() method to socket.socket: http://bugs.python.org/issue1103213 Victor
