Hi Nat,
Just to clarify, did anything actually break, or did it just print out that error message and continue?
The report was that it hung for some number of minutes and then the GUI finally appeared.
I hadn't thought about SBgrid when I added this - would it be helpful if I added an administrator feature to disable this sitewide?
That could be useful. I do know that we have a few sites with draconian IT policies that prohibit all outbound HTTP that isn't run through their authenticated proxy server (yuck), so having an explicit timeout for networks with fascist admins would still be a good thing. Thanks. -ben -- | Ben Eisenbraun | Software Sysadmin | | Structural Biology Grid | http://sbgrid.org | | Harvard Medical School | http://hms.harvard.edu |