Hi, I'm working in a small application, which tries to access data on a web server.
Normally the request has a timeout of for example 60 seconds conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(server_name, server_port, timeout=60) while True: conn.request("GET", "/my_url.php") try: resp = conn.getresponse() except HaveToLookUpNameOfTimeOutException as exc: print "timed out" continue parse_response(resp) Sometimes I would like to abort the request from another thread and force an immediate retry. How would I do this best? The other thread would be either a UI button or some other code knowing, when it is not good to wait the ull minute. Normally the timeout of 1 mintues is what I need though. Thanks for any suggestion. The solution should work on Windows and Linux -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list