urllib slow on FreeBSD 4.7?

[Skip Montanaro]

    >>> os.system('/usr/local/bin/wget ...')
    doug> takes less than 2 seconds

    doug> while
    >>> u = urllib.urlopen("http://...")
    ...

    doug> takes about 2 minutes

Silly question perhaps, but is urllib2.urlopen() any faster?

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