Never mind. It turns out the timeout value only works if it's supported by
urllib2. They didn't add that support until Python 2.6 and I'm running on
Python 2.4.
I found something that said that on Python 2.4 you could set the socket
default timeout like this;
import socket
socket.setdefaulttimeout(value)
I tried that but it didn't work either. Sigh….
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