ftplib: Software caused connection abort, how I solved it
My program polls FTP servers at intervals for jobs to process. Its running as a service on Windows server 2000 or 2003 :-(. About 13% of times the retrbinary and less often the nlst calls would fail with "Software caused connection abort". I could find no relevant solution on the intertubes. I added blocksize=2048 to the retrbinary call which lowerd the failures to about 2% but that was still unsatisfactory for me. When I added: socket.setdefaulttimeout(60) to the setup stuff in order to solve a different problem, the connection abort errors went away completely. Even when I restored retrbinary to use the default blocksize it still worked. HTH -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
ftplib: Software caused connection abort, how I solved it
My program polls FTP servers at intervals for jobs to process. Its running as a service on Windows server 2000 or 2003 :-(. About 13% of times the retrbinary and less often the nlst calls would fail with "Software caused connection abort". I could find no relevant solution on the intertubes. I added blocksize=2048 to the retrbinary call which lowerd the failures to about 2% but that was still unsatisfactory for me. When I added: socket.setdefaulttimeout(60) to the setup stuff in order to solve a different problem, the connection abort errors went away completely. Even when I restored retrbinary to use the default blocksize it still worked. HTH -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
