No default timeout for requests (unlike TS SDK)

[ochafik]

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Description

Spec states: Implementations SHOULD establish timeouts for all sent requests, to prevent hung connections and resource exhaustion.

The TypeScript SDK does have a default timeout of 60 seconds on requests, and the difference between Python & TypeScript is the crux of modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk#245 (which also suggests 60 seconds might not be long enough). Also related, TypeScript has a resetTimeoutOnProgress option (defaulting to falst), which would probably be useful if we do introduce a default to the Python SDK.

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[felixweinberger]

#1159 adds timeout support