title: How to set timeout for urlfetch in Google App Engine?
body: <p>I'm trying to have Django (on top of GAE) fetch data from another web service. I'm often hit with error like this:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>ApplicationError: 2 timed out Request</p>
    
    <p>Method:   GET</p>
    
    <p>Request URL:<a href="http://localhost:8080/" rel="noreferrer">http://localhost:8080/</a></p>
    
    <p>Exception Type:    DownloadError</p>
    
    <p>Exception Value: ApplicationError: 2 timed out</p>
    
    <p>Exception Location: /google_appengine/google/appengine/api/urlfetch.py in _get_fetch_result, line 325</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>It feels as if it will time out only after 12 seconds (I'm not sure, but it's really short).</p>
  
  <p><strong>Question: how can I set a longer timeout?</strong></p>