Hi Nicola,
On 02/05/2014 10:52 AM, Nicola Cocchiaro wrote:
> Hi Nikolaus,
>
> Are there timeouts for HTTP requests sent by S3ql? I took a look at the
> 2.7 code (backends/common.py), and the http.client.HTTPConnection
> constructor calls there (as well as HTTPSConnection ones) don't seem to
> specify a timeout, and it's my understanding from the Python docs that
> this would mean defaulting to the global default timeout. However the
> default timeout for the socket library (which this should fall back to)
> is None in the absence of a call to socket.setdefaulttimeout(), meaning
> HTTP requests could block indefinitely. Is there a timeout set elsewhere
> in code that I haven't been able to find and you can point me to?
No, S3QL does not set any timeouts explicitly. It will wait until the
server closes its side of the TCP connection, or (if the connection is
interrupted) until the kernel's TCP stack decides the connection has
been lost.
Best,
Nikolaus
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