How to set a timeout?

[Matthias Huening]

Thanks, Marco, for pointing me to the signal-module.

And, Steve, thank you very much for your 'other suggestion'.
I have to admit that I don't understand how it works but - it works!!
The asyncore-module is really great! Exactly what I was looking for.

One question: while playing around with your example I noticed that there
seems to be a problem with virtual servers. Your http_client-class seems to
ignore virtual servers. E.g. the page:
http://www.niederlandistik.fu-berlin.de/mitarbeiter.html
is not found (but it exists...).
Any ideas?

Thanks, Matthias