"The urlopen() and urlretrieve() functions can cause arbitrarily long delays"

[Thomas Rachel]

Am 24.02.2013 20:27 schrieb 7segment:

>> When in doubt, check some other way, such as with a browser.
>
> Thank you Ian. Browser is not a good idea, because I need this tool to
> work automatically. I don't have time to check and compare the response
> times manually and put them into the database.

Of course not for the long term. But you could check e.g. if MSN needs 
60 s as well from the browser. If not, there could be something else wrong.

Thomas