On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 5:06 AM, Jon Ribbens <jon+use...@unequivocal.eu> wrote: >> You can always add in the overall timeout separately. If the low-level >> timeout were implemented that way, there would be no way to externally >> add the other form of timeout. Therefore the only sane way to >> implement the request timeout is a between-byte limit. > > I have no idea what you mean here. The only sane way to implement the > request timeout is to provide both types of timeout.
You could provide both, but since one of them can be handled externally (with a thread, with a SIGALRM, or with some other sort of time limiting), the other one MUST be provided by the request. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
