--- a/bitsyblog/settings.py	Tue Nov 03 14:49:44 2020 -0800
+++ b/bitsyblog/settings.py	Tue Nov 03 14:52:46 2020 -0800
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 """user settings / preferences"""
 
 import parser # bitsyblog dateutils.parser with mods to retain strftime format
-import urllib2
 import utils
 
+
 class InvalidSettingError(Exception):
     """error when trying to validate a setting"""
 
+
 class Setting(object):
     def __init__(self, name, value=None):
         self.name = name
@@ -32,7 +33,7 @@
         else:
             raise InvalidSettingError('unrecognized date format: %s' % format)
 
-    
+
 class CSSFile(Setting):
     def __init__(self):
         Setting.__init__(self, 'CSS file')
@@ -41,10 +42,9 @@
         if not hasattr(value, 'file'):
             return True # blank set: don't do anything
         css = value.file.read()
-        try:
-            validcss = utils.validate_css(css)
-        except urllib2.URLError:
-            raise InvalidSettingError('Could not validate CSS (sorry!)')
+
+        # XXX `validate_css` is a dummy function for now.
+        validcss = utils.validate_css(css)
         if not validcss:
             raise InvalidSettingError('%s is not valid css' % filename)
         filename = value.filename