timeout in urllib.open()

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    >> 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.

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