Created attachment 447248 [details]
timeout xmlrpc class

Description of problem:

I'm pretty sure that when making xmlrpc calls from python it does not implement a time out.  If the connection can't be initiated it looks like it does the right thing but if a connection is already established and then the remote side goes away it does not seem to ever time out.

I have some code from legacy rhts which replaces xmlrpclib with a timeout version.

# xmlrpclib doesn't support timeouts
#import xmlrpclib
import bkr.timeout_xmlrpclib as xmlrpclib