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From: Manuel Palenciano <mpalenciano@...>
Date: April 1, 2011 11:01:02 AM GMT+02:00
To: rest.client@...
Subject: Timeouts

Hello there,

I have 2 Rails apps talking each other thru an API using your
wonderful RestClient library. Everything works fine, excepting some
RestClient::Timeout exceptions, and I wonder if we should be using
timeouts, since I do not completely understand them, specially the
open_timeout option.

I would implement timeouts the following way:

mattr_accessor :resource
@@resource = RestClient::Resource.new base_url, :timeout =>
20, :open_timeout => 20

def self.get(uri, params = nil)
resource[uri].get :params => params do |response, request, result|
case response.code
when 200
ActiveSupport::JSON.decode response
else
raise "Response status: #{response.code}"
end
end
end

I just need to know, please, if this way is RIGHT, and if I should use
'open_timeout' or not, since I have no clue what it does and could not
find good documentation about it (even in the HTTP docs)

Thanks a lot in advance!
Manuel Palenciano

AFAIK the open timeout is the timeout to open the connection and the
timeout (called read_timeout) is when reading an answer. So depending if
the timeout is during the initial connection or during the http transfert
it may be on or the other, your code sample seems good if it is the
initial connection that fails.

I hope it helps

A.

Sure it helped!