--- ECHO_content/ECHO_helpers.py	2004/09/09 16:56:37	1.19
+++ ECHO_content/ECHO_helpers.py	2004/10/19 18:44:26	1.20
@@ -3,8 +3,10 @@ import urllib
 	
 def urlopen(url):
 	"""urlopen mit timeout"""
+	socket.setdefaulttimeout(2)
+	ret=urllib.urlopen(url)
 	socket.setdefaulttimeout(5)
-	return urllib.urlopen(url)
+	return ret
 #	urlopener = urllib.URLopener()
 #
 #	try: