[Buildbot-devel] HTTPStep timeout doesn't work

Wed Apr 30 09:21:44 UTC 2014

I have already tried to increase timeout parameter but I still get the same
error and I don't set the timeout anywhere. Here's the output:

<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>Network Error</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<blockquote>
<TABLE border=0 cellPadding=1 width="80%">
<TR><TD>
<FONT face="Helvetica">
<big>Network Error (tcp_error)</big>
<BR>
<BR>
</FONT>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>
<FONT face="Helvetica">
A communication error occurred: ""
</FONT>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>
<FONT face="Helvetica">
The Web Server may be down, too busy, or experiencing other problems
preventing it from responding to requests. You may wish to try again
at a later time.
</FONT>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>
</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</blockquote>
</FONT>
</BODY></HTML>

2014-04-29 16:36 GMT+02:00 Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin at v.igoro.us>:

> The HTTPStep passes its "timeout" argument directly to requests, so I
> would expect that increasing that value will increase the allowed
> time.
>
> Can you show what the error you're seeing is?  By default, requests
> doesn't enforce any timeout -- certainly not 1800s (which is really
> long for an HTTP request!).  Are you sure you're not seeing a
> ShellCommand timeout, where the default *is* 1800s?
>
> Dustin
>
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