From 915676582b0dc1fd4e3132e13de7312a23438ebf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josh Roesslein <jroesslein@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:33:19 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Handle failures during send of request to twitter. This
 mainly happens if we are unable to connect to twitter due to network outage
 or twitter being offline.

---
 tweepy/binder.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tweepy/binder.py b/tweepy/binder.py
index 5728962..0175bd4 100644
--- a/tweepy/binder.py
+++ b/tweepy/binder.py
@@ -110,7 +110,10 @@ def bind_api(path, parser, allowed_param=[], method='GET', require_auth=False,
                 )
 
             # Build request
-            conn.request(method, url, headers=headers, body=post_data)
+            try:
+                conn.request(method, url, headers=headers, body=post_data)
+            except Exception, e:
+                raise TweepError('Failed to send request: %s' % e)
 
             # Get response
             resp = conn.getresponse()
-- 
2.25.1