Hi, first a more python/httplib.py specific question: I know there has been a patch for this module to support socket timeout exception but I cant find the bastard. Anyone? I can see that in Python2.0 the urllib module now has a timeout implementation but is it safe to replace urllib.py from 2.0 in zope's python modules? I know... I will try it... but if someone has any experience in this would help. Now more zope/Zserver specific: ZServer/medusa has a timeout option, I reduced this value but that just doesnt seems to work, I still have zombie channels running for days. Meanwhile I'm working on a External Method that imports Zhttpserver stuff where I can enter in the zope's channels poll and find the zombie ones and hopefully killing/closing the bastards, thats just what Zserver.maintenance() should do but doesnt. A final point is I know in unix I could use the signal module but I'm working on NT (dont laugh like a drain please :-), which doesnt support signals but supports a "structured exception handling" (whatever this means...), bottom line, is there a signal like module in python working on NT that I could use to for instance wrap httplib and urllib calls? Any comments? Thanx, Júlio Dinis Silva _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.