On 9/2/2013 1:43 PM, John Nagle wrote:
I'm reading files from an FTP server at the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission. This code has been running successfully for
years. Recently, they imposed a consistent connection delay
of 20 seconds at FTP connection, presumably because they're ha
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 3:43 AM, John Nagle wrote:
> "URLError: failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a
> period of time, or established connection failed because connected host
> has failed to respond>"
>
> But in both cases, the command line FTP client will work, afte
John Nagle writes:
> Here's the relevant code:
>
> TIMEOUTSECS = 60 ## give up waiting for server after 60 seconds
> ...
> def urlopen(url,timeout=TIMEOUTSECS) :
> if url.endswith(".gz") : # gzipped file, must decompress first
> nd = urllib2.urlopen(url,timeout=timeout) # ge
