Issue1544

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Title:	urllib2.urlopen() does not close connection on 404 response.
Type:	behaviour	Severity:	major
Components:	Library	Versions:	2.5.1

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Created on 2010-01-19.13:49:52 by geraldth, last changed 2010-01-19.13:49:52 by geraldth.

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msg5443 (view)	Author: Gerald Thaler (geraldth)	Date: 2010-01-19.13:49:50
urllib2.urlopen(url) raises an exception on URLs that return HTTP 40x (or 50x) but fails to close the underlying connection. Because the call does not return normally, there is no way for the caller to close the connection himself. This is a major problem in webspider-applications, as ultimately the system will run out of file descriptors.

msg5443 (view)

Author: Gerald Thaler (geraldth)

Date: 2010-01-19.13:49:50

urllib2.urlopen(url) raises an exception on URLs that return HTTP 40x (or 50x) but fails to close the underlying connection. Because the call does not return normally, there is no way for the caller to close the connection himself.

This is a major problem in webspider-applications, as ultimately the system will run out of file descriptors.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2010-01-19 13:49:52	geraldth	create