Close urllib2 connection

Question

I\'m using urllib2 to load files from ftp- and http-servers.

Some of the servers support only one connection per IP. The problem is, that urllib2 does not close the

Answer 1

Biggie: I think it's because the connection is not shutdown().

Note close() releases the resource associated with a connection but does not necessarily close the connection immediately. If you want to close the connection in a timely fashion, call shutdown() before close().

You could try something like this before f.close():

import socket
f.fp._sock.fp._sock.shutdown(socket.SHUT_RDWR)

(And yes.. if that works, it's not Right(tm), but you'll know what the problem is.)