On 03:11 pm, jcea at jcea.es wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On 13/04/10 04:03, exarkun at twistedmatrix.com wrote: >>On 12 Apr, 11:19 pm, jcea at jcea.es wrote: >>>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>Hash: SHA1 >>> >>>On 04/13/2010 12:47 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >>>>Jesus Cea <jcea <at> jcea.es> writes: >>>>> >>>>>PS: "socket.setdefaulttimeout()" is not enough, because it could >>>>>shutdown a perfectly functional connection, just because it was >>>>>idle >>>>>for >>>>>too long. >>>> >>>>The socket timeout doesn't shutdown anything. It just puts a limit >>>>on >>>>how much >>>>time recv() and send() can block. Then it's up to you to detect >>>>whether the >>>>server is still alive (for example by pinging it through whatever >>>>means the >>>>application protocol gives you). >>> >>>A regular standard library (let say, poplib) would abort, after >>>getting >>>the timeout exception. >>>>>4. Modify client libraries to accept a new optional socket-like >>>>>object >>>>>as an optional parameter. This would allow things like transparent >>>>>compression or encryption, or to replace the socket connection by >>>>>anything else (read/write to shared memory or database, for >>>>>example). >>>> >>>>This could be useful too. >>> >>>I have been thinking about this for years. Do you actually think this >>>could be formally proposed?. >> >>Every once in a while I make a little bit more progress on the PEP I'm >>working on for this. If you want to talk more about this, you can >>find >>me in #python-dev or #twisted on freenode. >> >>Jean-Paul > >Jean-Paul, I would like to have this for 3.2. How is the PEP going?. It's still little more than an outline. You can see it here: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/ProtocolPEP And if you're interested in helping, we can figure out a way to do that (you can have edit permission on the wiki or we can move the document elsewhere, whatever). Jean-Paul
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