http.Client timeout.

[sarg]

Please set reasonable timeout for http.Client. As for now fdroidcl may show Downloading update... without displaying any progress.

[mvdan]

The default timeouts apply; see https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#RoundTripper. For example, dialing stops after 30s, and the TLS handshake has 10s. There's no timeout on downloading the request body; otherwise, downloading a very large APK over a slow connection could error.

I agree that not reporting progress isn't ideal, but this is not an interactive tool. I think the underlying issue here is that f-droid.org can be very slow at times.

[sarg]

Okay then. I'll set global timeout in my script, given that I know how long update usually takes.
I agree that main use for fdroidcl is in non-interactive scenarios. But if you'll implement progress display like wget does it'll be nice.

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[Apfelwurm]

@sarg how did you set the global timeout? I've searched many times now and didn't find anything that would not involve code changes

[sarg]

@Apfelwurm I've meant something like https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/timeout.1.html
You could do timeout 10s fdroidcl update

[Apfelwurm]

well, some things can be so simple :'D Thank you very much!