带有Twitter Streaming API的Python pycurl

Question

I'm using pycurl to crawl data from the Twitter Streaming API. However, after several hours, the connection just hangs there.

Is there anyway to detect this and exit the program? I know pycurl has TIMEOUT and CONNECTTIMEOUT, but these two params do not apply.

Answer 1

Do you get an exception or something and could you please add some code? :) Maybe you should think about using another module like httplib (if you want to use SSL/TLS you could create a new socket and overwrite the connect function of httplib with your secure wrapped socket :) )