[Zope] Http API Ping

[seb bacon]

* Chris Withers <chrisw@nipltd.com> [011012 14:13]:
> >   second easiest is to do the naive urllib.urlopen approach - no timeouts,
> > anything like that
> > 
> >   you could also do this with a timeout - you have to do some of it yourself,
> > using select.select - I can post some code for this if you like.
> 
> IIRC, there's a timeout module you can import floating aroudn somewhere...

I've done timeouts using signals, too.  I *think* the signal module is
cross platform.

seb