urllib2 Keep-alive spike

[Michael Ellerman]

On 9/1/06, Alex J. Champandard <bazaalist-100806 at ai-depot.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As you may know, I've been having lots of problems with connection
> reliability and speed on my XP machine, connecting to a Twisted server.
> I had different issues with both pycurl and urllib transports, but I
> figured I should look into the urllib Keep-alive problem as it would be
> more useful for the project.

That's the spirit! :)

I've been meaning to look at whether it'd be good to use urlgrabber in
its entirety, but I haven't had time. Are you familiar with it? It
looks like it might get us some of the things we want, and having it
maintained as an external project is better in the long run I think.

cheers