timeout in urllib.open()

[Stefan Palme]

Uuuh this is no solution for me, because the 
website-checking tool is part of a very very big
application running in an application server, so
globally setting the timeout may break a lot of
other things...

But when there is a "default timeout" (as indicated by
the method name) - isn't there a "per-socket timeout"
too?

-stefan-

> I believe this can only be set globally:
> 
> import socket
> socket.setdefaulttimeout(seconds)
> 
> Peter