On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 at 05:45, Daniel Stenberg <dan...@haxx.se> wrote: > *The server* or even "the URL". That's a single unity and there's a single > timeout value, given in a time unit.
This is the key; it can also mean that these users are talking about the typical case when there is a server per hostname. They probably limit to that context. You may get more info if you bring up the DNS retrying topic. > - "I want to attempt to connect to each address of the host name for 10 > seconds each before we give up, which can take anywhere from 10 to 200 or more > seconds" We already have another kind of timeout in place, don't we? Realistically speaking, anyone who put 20 addresses for a hostname doesn't expect the client to try all 20 addresses; just a bunch of them would suffice. This can be made an option with a sane default. (like 4, or some number acquirable via statistic mean, or simply turn off) > So a 10 second timeout can legitimately take 200 seconds before it expires. > That surely will surprise some users. I should note that they also have "proxy_next_upstream_tries" option to limit the number of tries. I never try the option myself, though. From reading the document, I guess it is the same kind of number I described earlier. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: https://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: https://curl.se/mail/etiquette.html
