urllib2 urlopen takes too much time

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On Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 11:09:30 PM UTC-4, Aahz wrote:
> In article <mailman.1916.1245600033.8015.python-list at python.org>,
> =?UTF-8?Q?Filip_Gruszczy=C5=84ski?=  <gruszczy at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >I have encountered a performance problem using suds, which was traced
> >down to _socket.recv. I am calling some web services and each of them
> >uses about 0.2 sec and 99% of this time is spent on urllib2.urlopen,
> >while the rest of the call is finished in milliseconds. 
> 
> What happens if you use urlopen() by itself?
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I am having the same issue.  Did you ever figure out a solution?  The time delay is also the same, from .2 to .25 sec.  I need to stay with urlopen though so I can do a custom request header