--- documentViewer/documentViewer.py	2010/06/16 18:43:23	1.69.2.7
+++ documentViewer/documentViewer.py	2010/06/16 18:45:16	1.69.2.8
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ def getHttpData(url, data=None, num_trie
             if sys.version_info < (2, 6):
                 # set timeout on socket -- ugly :-(
                 import socket
-                socket.setdefaulttimeout(timeout)
+                socket.setdefaulttimeout(float(timeout))
                 response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
             else:
                 response = urllib2.urlopen(url,timeout=float(timeout))