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Asked: 2026-05-14T21:25:14+00:00

I’m trying to write a python script that does the following from within a

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I’m trying to write a python script that does the following from within a minutely cronjob:

  1. tries to execute a url
  2. after 10 seconds if there is no response yet, abandon the response and immediately issue a command via os.system to restart the webserver.

The problem is that when my server crashes, it doesn’t return a response at all. If I were to just have my script time the response, the script will go on for 10 minutes or more. I want it to issue the restart immediately once it detects a slow response. I know such a script could be written in probably less than 5 mines of code, but I have no idea how to go about it.

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  1. Editorial Team

    From Python 2.6 on you can use the following, provide the timeout in seconds in the call to urlopen:

    urllib2.urlopen(url[, data][, timeout])

    This sets the timeout only for this request, not globally like with socket.settimeout. But for older versions of Python that is probably your only option.

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