Something more robust to deal with the following

[gjthompson1]

Summary.

Seems a little overkill to have to do https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22346158/python-requests-how-to-limit-received-size-transfer-rate-and-or-total-time to deal with sites like the below. Would be nice to have that built in. But maybe thats asking to much.

Question on Stack: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46061786/python-requests-timeout-not-working/46061958#46061958

Expected Result

Error with running:

requests.get('http://arboleascity.com',timeout=(5,5),verify=False)

What you expected.

Would timeout in 5 seconds. But it does not. It works 99.9% of the time but for this site it does not.

Probably a bug. Any help?

Reproduction Steps

import requests
requests.get('http://arboleascity.com',timeout=(5,5),verify=False)

System Information

$ python -m requests.help

{
  "chardet": {
    "version": "3.0.4"
  },
  "cryptography": {
    "version": ""
  },
  "idna": {
    "version": "2.6"
  },
  "implementation": {
    "name": "CPython",
    "version": "3.5.2"
  },
  "platform": {
    "release": "4.4.0-1032-aws",
    "system": "Linux"
  },
  "pyOpenSSL": {
    "openssl_version": "",
    "version": null
  },
  "requests": {
    "version": "2.18.4"
  },
  "system_ssl": {
    "version": "1000207f"
  },
  "urllib3": {
    "version": "1.22"
  },
  "using_pyopenssl": false
}

[sigmavirus24]

The answer is in your StackOverflow question. Your connection is likely taking less than 5 seconds and you're probably receiving some data at least once every 5 seconds. What you seem to be expecting is some kind of total timeout on the time it takes to complete downloading the response and that's not something that we can provide at this point in time.

You can search closed issues for other discussions of this and look specifically for "total timeout" or "wall clock timeout". There are other 3rd party solutions that can help you achieve your goal.