Feature: Control network timeout duration

[Tomtomgo]

tom.aize...@gmail.com commented:

Which version of PhantomJS are you using? Tip: run 'phantomjs --version'.

1.9.0 (development)

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Make a request with page.open to a non-responding server
2. PhantomJS will wait forever

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I can only handle this by calling phantom.exit() via a setTimeout. It would be more logical to be able to set a timeout on the page.open call that aborts the request and optionally throw an error (via callback .onError).

Which operating system are you using?
Ubuntu 12.04

Did you use binary PhantomJS or did you compile it from source?
Compile from master tree

Please provide any additional information below.
On the discussion board J. Greene proposed I put a feature request here. The page: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/phantomjs/0OnJPkDAqSk.

Disclaimer:
This issue was migrated on 2013-03-15 from the project's former issue tracker on Google Code, Issue #1129.
🌟   3 people had starred this issue at the time of migration.

[JamesMGreene]

james.m....@gmail.com commented:

 

 
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[JamesMGreene]

james.m....@gmail.com commented:

 

 
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[vitallium]

vitaliy....@gmail.com commented:

Hi.

I saw your discussion on GitHub. I agree with you, this feature will be awesome.
Some ideas about implementing this feature:

1. Control timeout for a page open request via options arguments in page.open
2. [In future] I want to control the timeout for each network request

[Tomtomgo]

tom.aize...@gmail.com commented:

I've issued a pull request here:

#414