[Zope] urllib timeout

[John J Lee]

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Tino Wildenhain wrote:
[...]
> I'm not aware of any timeout in urllib and at least you should get
> an exception, not nothing at all. If in doubt, run a sniffer/logger
> for the network traffic in parallel, for example tcpflow.
[...]

If you're using Zope 2.7 with Python 2.3, maybe something is calling
socket.setdefaulttimeout(), and then something else catches the
socket.timeout exception??  Sounds unlikely, though...

Take Tino's advice about the sniffer.


John