diff --git a/python-urlgrabber.spec b/python-urlgrabber.spec
index a211145..a7ac762 100644
--- a/python-urlgrabber.spec
+++ b/python-urlgrabber.spec
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Summary: A high-level cross-protocol url-grabber
 Name: python-urlgrabber
 Version: 3.9.0
-Release: 5%{?dist}
+Release: 6%{?dist}
 Source0: urlgrabber-%{version}.tar.gz
 Patch0:  urlgrabber-HEAD.patch
 
diff --git a/urlgrabber-HEAD.patch b/urlgrabber-HEAD.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8c84095
--- /dev/null
+++ b/urlgrabber-HEAD.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+diff --git a/urlgrabber/grabber.py b/urlgrabber/grabber.py
+index cf51dff..3758799 100644
+--- a/urlgrabber/grabber.py
++++ b/urlgrabber/grabber.py
+@@ -402,6 +402,7 @@ import urllib
+ import urllib2
+ import mimetools
+ import thread
++import types
+ from stat import *  # S_* and ST_*
+ import pycurl
+ from ftplib import parse150
+@@ -1219,7 +1220,7 @@ class URLGrabberFileObject:
+         self.append = 0
+         reget_length = 0
+         rt = None
+-        if have_range and self.opts.reget and type(self.filename) == type(''):
++        if have_range and self.opts.reget and type(self.filename) in types.StringTypes:
+             # we have reget turned on and we're dumping to a file
+             try:
+                 s = os.stat(self.filename)
+@@ -1450,6 +1451,7 @@ class PyCurlFileObject():
+         self.scheme = urlparse.urlsplit(self.url)[0]
+         self.filename = filename
+         self.append = False
++        self.reget_time = None
+         self.opts = opts
+         self._complete = False
+         self.reget_time = None
+@@ -1528,11 +1530,12 @@ class PyCurlFileObject():
+ 
+ 
+         # defaults we're always going to set
+-        self.curl_obj.setopt(pycurl.NOPROGRESS, 0)
++        self.curl_obj.setopt(pycurl.NOPROGRESS, False)
+         self.curl_obj.setopt(pycurl.WRITEFUNCTION, self._retrieve)
+         self.curl_obj.setopt(pycurl.HEADERFUNCTION, self._hdr_retrieve)
+         self.curl_obj.setopt(pycurl.PROGRESSFUNCTION, self._progress_update)
+-        self.curl_obj.setopt(pycurl.FAILONERROR, 1)
++        self.curl_obj.setopt(pycurl.FAILONERROR, True)
++        self.curl_obj.setopt(pycurl.OPT_FILETIME, True)
+         
+         if DEBUG:
+             self.curl_obj.setopt(pycurl.VERBOSE, True)
+@@ -1540,15 +1543,15 @@ class PyCurlFileObject():
+             self.curl_obj.setopt(pycurl.USERAGENT, opts.user_agent)
+         
+         # maybe to be options later
+-        self.curl_obj.setopt(pycurl.FOLLOWLOCATION, 1)
++        self.curl_obj.setopt(pycurl.FOLLOWLOCATION, True)
+         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
+@@ -1607,18 +1610,21 @@ 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
+             
+     def _do_open(self):
+-        self.append = False
+-        self.reget_time = None
+         self.curl_obj = _curl_cache
+         self.curl_obj.reset() # reset all old settings away, just in case
+         # setup any ranges
+@@ -1630,11 +1636,9 @@ class PyCurlFileObject():
+         pass
+         
+     def _build_range(self):
+-        self.reget_time = None
+-        self.append = False
+         reget_length = 0
+         rt = None
+-        if self.opts.reget and type(self.filename) == type(''):
++        if self.opts.reget and type(self.filename) in types.StringTypes:
+             # we have reget turned on and we're dumping to a file
+             try:
+                 s = os.stat(self.filename)
+@@ -1729,7 +1733,7 @@ class PyCurlFileObject():
+         if self.filename:
+             self._prog_reportname = str(self.filename)
+             self._prog_basename = os.path.basename(self.filename)
+-
++            
+             if self.append: mode = 'ab'
+             else: mode = 'wb'
+