I'm aware of that but what I need is to disconnect on demand. It will only disconnect if needed, and not after a fixed time. By the way, I tried to set the timeout to 0 while the socket is waiting for a response, but it didn't work (and probably not supposed to work by design).
Thanks. On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Gerdus van Zyl <gerdusvan...@gmail.com>wrote: > Do you set a socket timeout value via socket.setdefaulttimeout? > see: > http://www.python.org/doc/2.6/library/socket.html#socket.setdefaulttimeout > > ~Gerdus > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Marte Soliza<myrtac...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm using httplib as an HTTP client for a custom HTTP server. One thing I > > need is to be able to immediately force disconnect a request that takes > too > > long on the server side (and hasn't returned any data) or if the > connection > > becomes problematic to the point that no data returns for a long period > of > > time. The blocking part happens when getresponse is being called on the > > HTTPConnection object. In Linux, on a separate thread, I can call > shutdown > > on the socket of the connection object and the getresponse call > immediately > > raises an error. However, in Windows (XP SP3 in particular), this seems > to > > be not the case. It still waits for the server to communicate something > > back. Do I need to call a Windows-specific function to achieve the same > as > > in Linux? > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > python-win32 mailing list > > python-win32@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > python-win32 mailing list > python-win32@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 >
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