Hi, I'm currently using urllib2 to get an external URL from an internal "cron like" Zope thread. The loaded page has to manage administrative tasks before I can start other tasks into Zope internal database ; it returns partial chunks of data, but globally takes more than 20 minutes to run. Problem : when loading the page via a simple Python console, I set socket.setdefaulttimeout() and everything is OK ; but when launching the same command from inside Zope thread, I get a socket.timeout error. So my question : as I'd really prefer to keep this method call inside an internal Zope thread, how can I prevent this timeout ? Thanks for any help, Thierry Florac -- Chef de projet intranet/internet Office National des Forêts - Département Informatique 2, Avenue de Saint-Mandé 75570 PARIS Cedex 12 Mél : thierry.florac@onf.fr Tél. : +33 01.40.19.59.64 Fax. : +33 01.40.19.59.85