Jakub Labath wrote: > Hi, > > I believe as soon as you call socket.setdefaultimeout it also changes > certain behavior for ALL sockets in general (blocking non blocking > etc) plus obviously the timeout. > That is in my opinion pure evil(TM) because surely database drivers, > connection handlers, logging tools and god knows what will never have > the same expectations as to how the sockets should behave. > I didn't find a way to set a timeout for a specific connection when > using urllib, urllib2 or even httplib - in python 2.3. > So I ended up using raw sockets :-( because then it is possible to set > a custom timeout without changing behaviour of all the other sockets. > > BTW If anybody knows a better way to do this I would not mind learning > a trick or two :-), because reimplementing HTTP 1.0 GET request was a > breeze, but if I had to re-implement https with authentication I'd be > one unhappy coder.
Getting a bit away from Django here, but still... Because urllib2 is highly modular, fixing this problem is not entirely as painful as it seems. The actual connection stuff is done by httplib.HTTPConnection and httplib.HTTPSConnection (you can trace it through from urllib2.HTTP(S)Handler So you need to override the connect() methods in those classes to call self.sock.set_timeout() after creating the socket. I have done this in the past in various pieces of production code that needed fairly fine-grained control. There is either a patch in Python (for the future) or still being reviewed to fix this generically, too. See this thread on python-devel: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/058996.html Cheers, Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
