import socket, requests, threading, time

g_host = 'localhost'
g_post = 8000

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.bind((g_host, g_post))
s.listen(1)

g_timeout_wait = 5
g_success = False
def background_func():
  global g_success
  for i in range(g_timeout_wait - 1):
    time.sleep(1)
    print i
  g_success = True

background_thread = threading.Thread(target=background_func)
background_thread.start()

try:
  # change "https" to "http" and then it will succeed.
  requests.get('https://%s:%d'%(g_host, g_post), timeout=g_timeout_wait)
except Exception as e:
  print e
else:
  assert 0, 'expected exception'

print 'g_success =', g_success