What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. On App Engine using a Frontend instance and httplib2 make a request to a server taking longer than 60 seconds to respond. 2. DeadlineExceededError is thrown by the runtime (because URLFetch took too long)

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? 0.7.6

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Catching DeadlineExceededError and raising a meaningful exception will aid in troubleshooting. For instance, this will make it clearer that a timeout value should be passed into httplib2.Http().

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