+ # Some logic to deal with timeouts. It appears that some (or all) versions
+ # of python don't set the timeout after the socket is created. We'll do it
+ # ourselves by forcing the connection to connect, finding the socket, and
+ # calling settimeout() on it. (tested with python 2.6)
+ if self.timeout:
+ if hasattr(conn, "_conn"):
+ # HTTPS is a wrapper around HTTPSConnection
+ real_conn = conn._conn
+ else:
+ real_conn = conn
+ conn.connect()
+ if hasattr(real_conn, "sock") and hasattr(real_conn.sock, "settimeout"):
+ real_conn.sock.settimeout(self.timeout)
+