Tests timeouts for HTTPS connections

test_https_timeout.py

#!/usr/bin/python
#
# Example run:
# time ./test_https_timeout.py example.com 200 10

import httplib
import sys
from time import sleep


c = httplib.HTTPSConnection(sys.argv[1])
sleep_secs = int(sys.argv[2])
sleep_inc = int(sys.argv[3])

while True:
    c.request('GET', '/')
    response = c.getresponse()
    response.read()
    print(response.status, response.reason)
    print('Sleeping for {} seconds'.format(sleep_secs))
    sleep(sleep_secs)
    sleep_secs += sleep_inc