Set timeout for xmlrpclib.ServerProxy

Question

I am using xmlrpclib.ServerProxy to make RPC calls to a remote server. If there is not a network connection to the server it takes the default 10 seconds to return a socket.

Answer 1

Based on the one from antonylesuisse, a working version (on python >= 2.6).

# -*- coding: utf8 -*-
import xmlrpclib
import httplib
import socket

class TimeoutHTTP(httplib.HTTP):
   def __init__(self, host='', port=None, strict=None,
                timeout=socket._GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT):
        if port == 0:
            port = None
        self._setup(self._connection_class(host, port, strict, timeout))

class TimeoutTransport(xmlrpclib.Transport):
    def __init__(self, timeout=socket._GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT, *args, **kwargs):
        xmlrpclib.Transport.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
        self.timeout = timeout

    def make_connection(self, host):
        host, extra_headers, x509 = self.get_host_info(host)
        conn = TimeoutHTTP(host, timeout=self.timeout)
        return conn

class TimeoutServerProxy(xmlrpclib.ServerProxy):
    def __init__(self, uri, timeout=socket._GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT,
                 *args, **kwargs):
        kwargs['transport'] = TimeoutTransport(timeout=timeout,
                                    use_datetime=kwargs.get('use_datetime', 0))
        xmlrpclib.ServerProxy.__init__(self, uri, *args, **kwargs)