A long time ago (Dec 2007) there was a patch [1] for drakma to implement timeouts with sbcl. It was rejected with suggestion to post similar patch into usocket library.
Totday, I start to learn lisp programing and I need http-request for my small program. I took drakma for this. But it does not support timeouts on sbcl. I use debian and it seems sbcl - is the best choice for me.
By googling I found a patch for drakma. I repplaied it for 1.2.3 drakma. It seems to me, it still forth appling into main line of drakma. I did not investigate what happen with usocket patch and such long time shows - this patch needs to be applied anyway :-)
1. http://common-lisp.net/pipermail/drakma-devel/2007-December/000601.html
-- Alexander Litvinov