Changing the global socket timeout is evil

diff --git a/forum_modules/akismet/lib/akismet.py b/forum_modules/akismet/lib/akismet.py
index fd15794c77bce5aa5a0f46e39776ac11b8e396c2..7d2cb35c5063a2484b857294408599a78a1e2d56 100644 (file)
--- a/forum_modules/akismet/lib/akismet.py
+++ b/forum_modules/akismet/lib/akismet.py
@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ from urllib import urlencode
 from forum import settings
 
 import socket
-if hasattr(socket, 'setdefaulttimeout'):
-    # Set the default timeout on sockets to 5 seconds
-    socket.setdefaulttimeout(5)
+#if hasattr(socket, 'setdefaulttimeout'):
+#    # Set the default timeout on sockets to 5 seconds
+#    socket.setdefaulttimeout(5)
 
 __version__ = '0.2.0'