title: Python - urllib2 timeout
body: <p>I got something below is snippet of my code</p>
  
  <pre><code>opener = urllib2.build_opener(redirect_handler.MyHTTPRedirectHandler())
  opener.addheaders = [('Accept-encoding', 'gzip')]
  fetch_timeout = 12
  self.response = opener.open(url, timeout=fetch_timeout)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>however, it code still waits 60~ seconds before timing out...
  Any clues?</p>