diff --git a/powerline/lib/url.py b/powerline/lib/url.py
index 0ff53ade..7387acc9 100644
--- a/powerline/lib/url.py
+++ b/powerline/lib/url.py
@@ -1,26 +1,16 @@
 # vim:fileencoding=utf-8:noet
 
+try:
+	from urllib.error import HTTPError
+	from urllib.request import urlopen
+	from urllib.parse import urlencode as urllib_urlencode  # NOQA
+except ImportError:
+	from urllib2 import urlopen, HTTPError
+	from urllib import urlencode as urllib_urlencode  # NOQA
+
 
 def urllib_read(url):
 	try:
-		import urllib.error
-		import urllib.request
-		try:
-			return urllib.request.urlopen(url, timeout=5).read().decode('utf-8')
-		except:
-			return
-	except ImportError:
-		import urllib2
-		try:
-			return urllib2.urlopen(url, timeout=5).read()
-		except:
-			return
-
-
-def urllib_urlencode(string):
-	try:
-		import urllib.parse
-		return urllib.parse.urlencode(string)
-	except ImportError:
-		import urllib
-		return urllib.urlencode(string)
+		return urlopen(url, timeout=100).read().decode('utf-8')
+	except HTTPError:
+		return