What is the timeout value of HTTP

[ken]

Can you please tell me what is the timeout value of httplib.HTTP?

i.e. how long python will wait for a response in the below code?

h = httplib.HTTP(self.url, 8080)
h.putrequest('GET', '/sample/?url=' + self.url)
h.endheaders()

Thank you.

[Alex Martelli]

ken <ken.c...@gmail.com> wrote:

HTTP per se does not define any timeout -- if self.url is correctly
resolved by DNS and accepts a TCP connection on port 8080, and then just
hangs forever, you'll be waiting. You can force timeouts yourself by
playing with socket.setdefaulttimeout(...) before you start the HTTP
interaction.

Alex

[Facundo Batista]

ken wrote:

> i.e. how long python will wait for a response in the below code?
>
> h = httplib.HTTP(self.url, 8080)
> h.putrequest('GET', '/sample/?url=' + self.url)
> h.endheaders()

For ever.

In Py<=2.5, httplib.HTTP doesn't have a timeout, so you have to do
something like:

>>> import socket
>>> socket.setdefaulttimeout(...)
>>> h = httplib.HTTP(...)

Beware that *all* sockets created after the call to setdefaulttimeout()
will have that default.

httplib.HTTP now has a timeout, but in the development trunk (you'll
have to checkout the SVN code and compile Python yourself, or wait until
Py2.6).

Regards,

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