On Jun 13, 1:26 am, Chuck Rhode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:48:03 -0700, disappearedng wrote: > > I knowPythonbut notPerl, and I am interested in knowing which of > > these two are a better choice. > > I'm partial to *Python*, but, the last time I looked, *urllib2* didn't > provide a time-out mechanism that worked under all circumstances. My > client-side scripts would usually hang when the server quit > responding, which happened a lot. >
You can avoid the problem using the following code: import socket timeout = 300 # seconds socket.setdefaulttimeout(timeout) regards, Subeen. http://love-python.blogspot.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
