This request never returns (or at least not within my patience):
import requests r = requests.get('http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?rcprop=ids&format=json&action=query&rclimit=10&rctype=edit&list=recentchanges&rcnamespace=0', headers={'user-agent': 'api test'}) Hitting Ctrl+C always produces this traceback:
^CTraceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/api.py", line 55, in get return request('get', url, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/api.py", line 44, in request return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 383, in request resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 486, in send r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 330, in send timeout=timeout File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 542, in urlopen body=body, headers=headers) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 367, in _make_request conn.request(method, url, **httplib_request_kw) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 973, in request self._send_request(method, url, body, headers) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1007, in _send_request self.endheaders(body) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 969, in endheaders self._send_output(message_body) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 829, in _send_output self.send(msg) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 791, in send self.connect() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 772, in connect self.timeout, self.source_address) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 562, in create_connection sock.connect(sa) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 224, in meth return getattr(self._sock,name)(*args) Adding timeout=5 to the request causes the request to succeed, after the timeout has expired (ie the correct data is returned from the API request). But of course that adds five seconds of latency into my application for every API request.
What's going wrong here?
