I am using twisted.web.client.Agent to post sms messages Occasionally I hit a problem where I do not get a response back. I have looked around and seen various comments about timeouts with Agent. One message had a comment that they had added an option to Agent to pass a timeout parameter to the connect method. But it would seem this only applies to getting connected. Once connected the timeout is cleared. I assume I would need to set up up some sort of callLater to fire in say 30 seconds and if the deferred has not fired, fire it with the timeout. I assume I would also need to somehow drop the connection that is hung. Now I am not too sure how I would do this with Agent and the request or response. I imagine many people will have already solved this problem but have not seen any info on how they went about this. If someone could give me a few pointers as to what I should look at I would appreciate it very much. Regards