>> I believe this can only be set globally: >> >> import socket >> socket.setdefaulttimeout(seconds)
Stefan> Uuuh this is no solution for me, because the website-checking Stefan> tool is part of a very very big application running in an Stefan> application server, so globally setting the timeout may break a Stefan> lot of other things... Can you try this patch: http://python.org/sf/723312 ? It's against current CVS. Also, it doesn't include urllib or urllib2 changes, just httplib. Getting this completed would be nice. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list