From 8c0ce736d8b7518b7db83912265ae2904893d221 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:18:36 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Disable use of signals in Curl

Various places suggest that this is needed for better thread-safety,
and the only drawback is that some systems cannot timeout properly on
DNS lookups.
---
 nilmdb/client/httpclient.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/nilmdb/client/httpclient.py b/nilmdb/client/httpclient.py
index 13ecedc..5845944 100644
--- a/nilmdb/client/httpclient.py
+++ b/nilmdb/client/httpclient.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ class HTTPClient(object):
         self.curl.setopt(pycurl.SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2)
         self.curl.setopt(pycurl.FOLLOWLOCATION, 1)
         self.curl.setopt(pycurl.MAXREDIRS, 5)
+        self.curl.setopt(pycurl.NOSIGNAL, 1)
         self._setup_url()
 
     def _setup_url(self, url = "", params = ""):