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So there's a way to hang the connection that won't be caught by a `timeout` setting in most HTTP clients? Or the bot writers were just too lazy to add timeouts
by inpulse 10y ago
So there's a way to hang the connection that won't be caught by a `timeout` setting in most HTTP clients? Or the bot writers were just too lazy to add timeouts in their bots?
- ChuckMcM 10y agoI suspect the bot writers were too lazy to add timeouts.
- diroussel 10y agoHe had no way to know if they were acutally still waiting months later. Just because the peer has not sent a RST doesn't mean remote end still has a process/machine still in existence.
- tedunangst 10y agoAs one data point, Python feed parser has no timeout. I've seen it sit for days when the remote end disappeared.