error: can't start new thread

I have a site that runs with follow configuration:

Django + mod-wsgi + apache

In one of user's request, I send another HTTP request to another service, and solve this by httplib library of python.

But sometimes this service don't get answer too long, and timeout for httplib doesn't work. So I creating thread, in this thread I send request to service, and join it after 20 sec (20 sec - is a timeout of request). This is how it works:

class HttpGetTimeOut(threading.Thread):
    def __init__(self,**kwargs):
        self.config = kwargs
        self.resp_data = None
        self.exception = None
        super(HttpGetTimeOut,self).__init__()
    def run(self):

        h = httplib.HTTPSConnection(self.config['server'])
        h.connect()
        sended_data = self.config['sended_data']
        h.putrequest("POST", self.config['path'])
        h.putheader("Content-Length", str(len(sended_data)))
        h.putheader("Content-Type", 'text/xml; charset="utf-8"')
        if 'base_auth' in self.config:
            base64string = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % self.config['base_auth'])[:-1]
            h.putheader("Authorization", "Basic %s" % base64string)
        h.endheaders()

        try:
            h.send(sended_data)
            self.resp_data = h.getresponse()
        except httplib.HTTPException,e:
            self.exception = e
        except Exception,e:
            self.exception = e

something like this...

And use it by this function:

getting = HttpGetTimeOut(**req_config)
getting.start()
getting.join(COOPERATION_TIMEOUT)
if getting.isAlive(): #maybe need some block
    getting._Thread__stop()
    raise ValueError('Timeout')
else:
    if getting.resp_data:
        r = getting.resp_data
    else:
        if getting.exception:
            raise ValueError('REquest Exception')
        else:
            raise ValueError('Undefined exception')

And all works fine, but s