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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
