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Fri Feb 9 06:23:27 CET 2007 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-February/070898.html

[GvR]
>I recently needed to access an HTTP URL with a timeout. I ended up
> monkey-patching httplib.HTTPConnection so that the connect() method
> has an optional second paramer, timeout, defaulting to None; if not
> None, a call to settimeout() is added right after successful creation
> of the socket.
> 
> Does anybody else think this is a good idea? (Personally I think this
> should've been done years ago. :-) Shall I check it into the head?

Yes.  This is has been requested more than once, but no one ever
got around to adding the timeout..

Raymond

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