xml-rpc timeout

[Jd]

Hi
I have a multi-threaded application. For certain operations to the
server, I would like to explicitly set timeout so that I get correct
status from the call and not timed out exception.
Does anyone know how to go about doing it ?

/Jd

[Steve Holden]

Jd wrote:

Hi
I have a multi-threaded application. For certain operations to the
server, I would like to explicitly set timeout so that I get correct
status from the call and not timed out exception.
Does anyone know how to go about doing it ?

The easiest way is to use socket.setdefaulttimeout() to establish a
longer timeout period for all sockets, I guess. It's difficult to
establish different timeouts for individual sockets when they aren't
opened directly by your own code (though each socket does also have a
method to set its timeout period).

regards
Steve
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[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <ma*************************************@python.or g>, Steve
Holden wrote:

Timeouts shouldn't be a normal feature of TCP communications.

On the contrary, they should. How else are you going to detect that the
other side has died?

[Steve Holden]

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

In message <ma*************************************@python.or g>, Steve
Holden wrote:

>Timeouts shouldn't be a normal feature of TCP communications.

On the contrary, they should. How else are you going to detect that the
other side has died?

You missed the point, which is that TCP hosts shouldn't normally die. In
other words, if timeout code is regularly invoked in communicating with
a specific host, that host is likely at fault.

Naturally timeouts are useful for detecting dropped communications.

regards
Steve
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