How to implement Timeout in BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler Python

Question

In my python script, I am trying to run a web server:

server = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer((\'127.0.0.1\',8080), RequestHandler)

I have a req

Answer 1

I actually found that setting a value for self.timeout in def setup didn't work if I then called the superclass. It looks like the Handler's setup and init methods aren't called during creation of the HTTPServer instance. I used pydevd to confirm this.

So, I took a backward step:

httpd = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(server_address, MyHttpHandler)
httpd.timeout = 10

Which works perfectly, and without overriding core code, or building your own derivative classes. It looks like you'd have to overwrite the HTTPServer code, rather than the Handler code, if you wanted to do it that way.