On 2018-01-15, Nagy László Zsolt <gand...@shopzeus.com> wrote: >> In other words: if the server starts to send the response, but then >> stops sending it (without closing the connection), then this will block >> forever anyway. > Or maybe I misunderstood the docs and the timeout means the max. time > elapsed between receiving two chunks of data from the server?
Yes. It's documented better here: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/advanced/#timeouts You can't specify a "total time" within which the operation must succeed or be abandoned, but if you specify a timeout and the server stops responding, either at the start of the process or in the middle of the response, then it will time out after the specified delay. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
