diff --git a/curl-timeout-head.patch b/curl-timeout-head.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index a104e0f..0000000
--- a/curl-timeout-head.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-commit 81d5f0fe31eb840f5e9b49afbb319d80ab03d107
-Author: Seth Vidal <skvidal@fedoraproject.org>
-Date:   Tue Aug 4 11:57:49 2009 -0400
-
-    handle timeouts more correctly (with the exception)
-    and set timeouts to be connect timeouts since libcurl seems to actually honor timeouts - as opposed
-    to urllib.
-    closes rh bug # 515497
-
-diff --git a/urlgrabber/grabber.py b/urlgrabber/grabber.py
-index cf51dff..5e3c0d7 100644
---- a/urlgrabber/grabber.py
-+++ b/urlgrabber/grabber.py
-@@ -1542,13 +1542,12 @@ class PyCurlFileObject():
-         # maybe to be options later
-         self.curl_obj.setopt(pycurl.FOLLOWLOCATION, 1)
-         self.curl_obj.setopt(pycurl.MAXREDIRS, 5)
--        self.curl_obj.setopt(pycurl.CONNECTTIMEOUT, 30)
-         
-         # timeouts
-         timeout = 300
-         if opts.timeout:
--            timeout = int(opts.timeout)
--        self.curl_obj.setopt(pycurl.TIMEOUT, timeout)
-+            self.curl_obj.setopt(pycurl.CONNECTTIMEOUT, timeout)
-+
-         # ssl options
-         if self.scheme == 'https':
-             if opts.ssl_ca_cert: # this may do ZERO with nss  according to curl docs
-@@ -1607,12 +1606,17 @@ class PyCurlFileObject():
-             # to other URLGrabErrors from 
-             # http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html
-             # this covers e.args[0] == 22 pretty well - which will be common
-+            if e.args[0] == 28:
-+                err = URLGrabError(12, _('Timeout on %s: %s') % (self.url, e))
-+                err.url = self.url
-+                raise err
-+            code = self.http_code                
-             if str(e.args[1]) == '': # fake it until you make it
-                 msg = 'HTTP Error %s : %s ' % (self.http_code, self.url)
-             else:
-                 msg = str(e.args[1])
-             err = URLGrabError(14, msg)
--            err.code = self.http_code
-+            err.code = code
-             err.exception = e
-             raise err
-             
diff --git a/python-urlgrabber.spec b/python-urlgrabber.spec
index 2292657..a211145 100644
--- a/python-urlgrabber.spec
+++ b/python-urlgrabber.spec
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
 Summary: A high-level cross-protocol url-grabber
 Name: python-urlgrabber
 Version: 3.9.0
-Release: 4%{?dist}
+Release: 5%{?dist}
 Source0: urlgrabber-%{version}.tar.gz
-Patch0:  curl-timeout-head.patch
+Patch0:  urlgrabber-HEAD.patch
 
 License: LGPLv2+
 Group: Development/Libraries
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %{_bindir}/urlgrabber
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Aug  5 2009 Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> - 3.9.0-5
+- apply complete patch to head fixes: timeouts, regets, improves exception raising
+
 * Tue Aug  4 2009 Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> - 3.9.0-4
 - timeout patch for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515497