What should I do if socket.setdefaulttimeout() is not working?

Question

I\'m writing a script(multi-threaded) to retrieve contents from a website, and the site\'s not very stable so every now and then there\'s hanging http request which cannot e

Answer 1

You could try to use mechanize with eventlet. It does not solve your timeout problem, but greenlet are non blocking, so it can solve your performance problem.