Re: [Webware-devel] urllib and https = thread poop

[Geoff T. <gta...@na...>]

At 10:23 AM 10/24/01 -0400, you wrote:
>I finally got around to writing a test script today to see why whenever
>I send a transaction to a credit card processor, all my servlets freeze
>until the transaction is complete.  I thought I was imagining it, I
>wasn't :(
>
>When my servlet calls urllib.urlopen to an HTTPS url, all servlets for
>that instance of webkit freeze until it finishes.  I'll poke around
>usenet and the source for the libraries involved.  I would guess there
>is a thread lock somewhere in there.  Hopefully there is a good way to
>get around it, otherwise I might have to move my credit card queries to
>another process?  Any suggestions?

Sounds like the C code that does the SSL is not _releasing_ the global 
thread lock.  I would post this to comp.lang.python.  (Are you using 
M2Crypto, or the SSL support that you can build directly into Python, or 
something else?)


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