I have a zope instance on a windows server that I am calling via xml-rpc from an external method on a zope server on a linux box. I am getting a strange error that I cannot reproduce from the interpreter: Error Type: Timeout Error Value: Recv timed out I didn't see any reference to a timeout in the xmlrpclib.py file, in fact I only found that error message as part of the WebMail product which I had installed for testing a while back: lib/python/Products/WebMail/timeoutsocket.py: raise Timeout("Recv timed out") any thoughts/suggestions? could this timeoutsocket.py somehow be affecting the xml-rpc calls of an external method? It didn't seem likely to me. Is there a limit to how long an external method can take? (I guess I should mention that I am using Zope 2.5.1 on debian and windows NT) Thanks, Mark Roach