I've found typo in urllib2. But bugs.python.org is down now. http://docs.python.org/dev/library/urllib2.html#urllib2.OpenerDirector.open -(if not specified, the global default timeout setting will be usedi). +(if not specified, the global default timeout setting will be used). # extra 'i' -- INADA Naoki <songofacandy at gmail.com>