How to set timeout for urlfetch in Google App Engine?

Question

I\'m trying to have Django (on top of GAE) fetch data from another web service. I\'m often hit with error like this:

ApplicationError: 2 timed out Req

Answer 1

It seems short but you have to know that the timeout of a request on GAE is around 30 seconds. As you probably need to do some operations on the response of your urlfetch, there's no need to have a timeout more than 10 seconds I think.