Global Request Timeout Broken in 16.0.0

[jgordon354]

• Application version: 16.0.0
• Operating System (Platform and Version): MacOS Big Sur Version 11.4

Expected Behavior
Expected global request timeout to place an upper time limit on the lack of a response.

Actual behavior
Setting the global request timeout seems to have no effect: ARC seems to wait indefinitely.

To Reproduce

1. Set the global request timeout under AdvancedRestClient > Preferences to 10 seconds.
2. Ensure that request configuration is disabled for your request.
3. Send a simple GET request that will receive no response (sent to an Anypoint Studio flow with a breakpoint set).
4. Note that ARC spins indefinitely awaiting a response despite the 10 second timeout setting.

Screenshots
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Additional Information

• If I configure request configuration for my particular GET, say to 20 seconds, that works.
• Apologies if there is some other setting to enable the global timeout that I am not aware of.

[jarrodek]

I identified the problem. The restored from the config value is not parsed as a number: https://github.com/advanced-rest-client/arc-electron/blob/master/src/app/scripts/arc/AdvancedRestClientApplication.js#L518
Since the config is considered insecure content this should be done when setting the timeout value. When a request is generated the HTTP request processor only tests whether the timeout is a string and ignores other types.
I will fix this today or tomorrow.