uber/py-look-for-timeouts — pull request #2 by eskil (2014-06-12 22:10:57+00:00)
Title: Never consider httplib timeout safe

It just isn't since the timeout is only used for connection.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/840163
http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.7/Lib/httplib.py