timeout for urllib2.urlopen() in pre Python 2.6 versions

Question

The urllib2 documentation says that timeout parameter was added in Python 2.6. Unfortunately my code base has been running on Python 2.5 and 2.4 platforms.

Answer 1

I use httplib from the standard library. It has a dead simple API, but only handles http as you might guess. IIUC urllib uses httplib to implement the http stuff.