Thanks I changed to 60secs by default and type casted to int as you
suggested.
On Dec 27, 2:39 am, evantan <tanhen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In version 1.99.4, socket-timeout was added to start params, which is very
> needed to tuning socket.settimeout in rocket.py. The default value 1
> second often lead to " <class 'socket.timeout'>(timed out) " error in a
> slow network,such as WAN than LAN.
>
> But in widget.py line 557:
>
> parser.add_option('--socket-timeout',
> default=1,
> dest='socket_timeout',
> help='timeout for socket (1 second)')
>
> lack a type to cast this param.Should be:
>
> parser.add_option('--socket-timeout',
> default=1,
> type='int',
> dest='socket_timeout',
> help='timeout for socket (1 second)')
>
> This bug lead to deadly exceptions(see below) when set "python web2py.py
> ... --socket-timeout=60 ..." in start time:
>
> ------>Traceback
> Exception in thread Thread-8:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 552, in
> __bootstrap_inner
> self.run()
> File "/home/git/web2py/gluon/rocket.py", line 1282, in run
> conn = Connection(*conn)
> File "/home/git/web2py/gluon/rocket.py", line 130, in __init__
> self.socket.settimeout(SOCKET_TIMEOUT)
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 224, in meth
> return getattr(self._sock,name)(*args)
> TypeError: a float is required
> <-----Traceback
