On 2015-09-03 2:01 PM, Yury Selivanov wrote:
On 2015-09-03 11:04 AM, Victor Stinner wrote:
Hi,
I proposed a patch to add timeout to StreamReader read methods:
http://bugs.python.org/issue23236
I'm +1, but there are some subtleties that I want to better
understand:
The idea is to reset the
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
I agree (unsurprisingly since it seems I brought it up in the first place
:-). I wonder if the parameter name should be other than timeout, since it
may surprise people that a readline() with a timeout of 5 secs can take
longer than 5 secs to complete. But I have no good suggestion for a better
