[issue8595] Explain the default timeout in http-client-related libraries

Andrei Kulakov added the comment: I've put up the doc update PR: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/27087 I did not add a module level default timeouts to these modules because it seems to me most of the issue is users being unaware of the current global default, which is fixed by docs u

[issue8595] Explain the default timeout in http-client-related libraries

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[issue8595] Explain the default timeout in http-client-related libraries

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[issue8595] Explain the default timeout in http-client-related libraries

Eric Smith added the comment: On 8/19/2010 9:14 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Why not provide {httplib,urllib}.{set,get}defaulttimeout() instead? Yes, I'm assuming that's how _HTTP_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT would be set and queried. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue8595] Explain the default timeout in http-client-related libraries

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > That way, if _HTTP_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT is never set, it will use the the > socket timeout. Admittedly I'd rather see all uses of module globals go > away, but I think this would be a good compromise. Why not provide {httplib,urllib}.{set,get}defaulttimeout() ins

[issue8595] Explain the default timeout in http-client-related libraries

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[issue8595] Explain the default timeout in http-client-related libraries

Eric Smith added the comment: I think you could preserve backward compatibility by doing something like the following (in httplib): _sentinel = object() __HTTP_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT = _sentinel In httplib.HTTPConnection.__init__(), in Python 2.6. def __init__(self, host, port=None, strict=None,

[issue8595] Explain the default timeout in http-client-related libraries

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 03:45:09AM +, Julian wrote: > Note: I am not arguing here that this SHOULD be done - it would > break existing applications, especially those that were written > before Python 2.6 - merely that it COULD be done. I get your point, Ju

[issue8595] Explain the default timeout in http-client-related libraries

Julian added the comment: @orsenthil: Consider the definition of httplib.HTTPConnection.__init__(), in Python 2.6. def __init__(self, host, port=None, strict=None, timeout=socket._GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT): This could be replaced with: def __init__(self, host, port=None,

[issue8595] Explain the default timeout in http-client-related libraries

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: I am not sure, there can be a default timeout value for client libraries like httplib and urllib2. Socket connection do have timeout and as you may have figured out already, the option in httplib and urllib methods is to set/override the socket._GLOBAL_DEF