[Zope] problem: zope freezes with httplib

[Toby Dickenson]

On Monday 09 Sep 2002 12:43 pm, Sebastian L=FChnsdorf wrote:
> hi!
>
> we have a problem with a project where zope retrieves web pages from
> another http server using httplib. the problem is, that at least in som=
e
> cases Zope freezes until a request is completed (the whole process, all
> threads). we believe it could be a problem with the threads, however we
> have no approach to solve this problem. here are the infos:

It might be a dumb suggestion, but are you sure that it is not just proce=
ssing=20
four such requests concurrently? the publisher thread will remain blocked=
=20
until your httplib request completes or times out, even if its client bro=
wser=20
has disconnected.

(four by default, or whatever number of publisher threads you are running=
=2E)