"inspec version" waits for connection timeout inside firewall

[makotots]

Description

inspec version command waits for timeout inside certain firewall setup.

InSpec and Platform Version

InSpec: 1.16.0
Operating System distribution: Debian 7.0 (Wheezy)

Replication Case

I live in such a firewall where connection to https://rubygems.org/ times out:

$ time curl --connect-timeout 90 https://rubygems.org/
curl: (28) connect() timed out!

real    1m30.019s
user    0m0.004s
sys     0m0.004s
$

This causes inspec version to wait for timeout too:

$ time inspec version
1.16.0

real    1m0.816s <--- HERE
user    0m0.704s
sys     0m0.072s
$

Possible Solutions

#1538 makes inspec version return quickly:

$ time inspec version
1.16.0

real    0m1.303s <--- HERE
user    0m0.664s
sys     0m0.100s
$

[adamleff]

Thanks for opening this issue and for PR #1538 which will correct this.