I found the problem on my end. It was a call to socket.setdefaulttimeout(). The bug I had found but can't locate now was correct: if you call that socket function, urllib2 (and httplib) have very difficult times completing reads.
I took out my call to setdefaulttimeout, and now it works great. Django is vindicated. --Ned. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---