[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That's a problem for me. I need short timeouts; I'm accessing sites > that might or might not have SSL support, and I need to quickly time > out when there's no SSL server.
You should be able to do short timeouts, just not using the global setdefaulttimeout. Have you tried Connection.set_socket_read/write_timeout? Also like I mentioned before, if you use the Twisted wrapper and let Twisted handle network stuff you should be fine. > Python needs a merge here. Read Guido van Rossum's rant on M2Crypto: > > http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=95863 That's old news, I believe I have fixed all of the issues mentioned there already in the 0.16 release. > What's probably needed is to implement the additional API functions of > the M2Crypto wrapper in the PyOpenSSL wrapper, so that the M2Crypto > components written in Python could be used with it. Then we'd have one > good implementation instead of two broken ones. M2Crypto and pyOpenSSL (and pyOpenSSL-extended, which you might want to take a look at as well) are implemented pretty differently, so merging seems unlikely. They are pretty small code wise, though, so it is not an impossible task. Personally I think I'd prefer if Python stdlib contained a better SSL module that did at least all the checks required for safe SSL connection. (Yeah, yeah, maybe I need to write it myself if nobody else gets to it;) -- Heikki Toivonen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
