[Skip Montanaro] > I stumbled on a somewhat cleaner way to do this using socket timeouts: > > class Server(SocketServer.ThreadingMixIn, SocketServer.TCPServer): > pause = 0.25 > allow_reuse_address = True > > def __init__(self, server_address, RequestHandlerClass): > SocketServer.TCPServer.__init__(self, server_address, > RequestHandlerClass) > self.socket.settimeout(self.pause) > self.serving = 1 > ... > > def serve_forever(self): > while self.serving: > self.handle_request() > > As far as my simple testing went (a trivial little xmlrpc server exposing > only "noop" and "exit" methods), the above worked fine. I was mildly > surprised that I didn't have to catch socket.timeout exceptions.
I think this would cause timeouts in the middle of handling request whenever a client is slow. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
