urequests

[kjm]

urequests takes 20-30s to throw an OSError if it doesn't get a response. We can't figure out where this timeout comes from. There is no timeout in the original requests library

def request(method, url, data=None, json=None, headers={}, stream=None):
    try:
        proto, dummy, host, path = url.split("/", 3)
    except ValueError:
        proto, dummy, host = url.split("/", 2)
        path = ""
    if proto == "http:":
        port = 80
    elif proto == "https:":
        import ussl
        port = 443
    else:
        raise ValueError("Unsupported protocol: " + proto)
    if ":" in host:
        host, port = host.split(":", 1)
        port = int(port)
    ai = usocket.getaddrinfo(host, port)
    ai = ai[0]
    s = usocket.socket(ai[0], ai[1], ai[2])

We thought we'd try to add a shorter timeout following https://docs.python.org/3/library/socket.html#socket.getaddrinfo

def request(method, url, data=None, json=None, headers={}, stream=None, timeout=5):
    try:
        proto, dummy, host, path = url.split("/", 3)
    except ValueError:
        proto, dummy, host = url.split("/", 2)
        path = ""
    if proto == "http:":
        port = 80
    elif proto == "https:":
        import ussl
        port = 443
    else:
        raise ValueError("Unsupported protocol: " + proto)
    if ":" in host:
        host, port = host.split(":", 1)
        port = int(port)
        s = usocket.socket(2,1,0)
    if timeout is not None:                 
        assert hasattr(usocket.socket, 'settimeout'), 'Socket does not support timeout'
        s.settimeout(timeout)
    ai = usocket.getaddrinfo(host, port)                                        
    ai = ai[0]                              

but it's not giving the 5s timeout we'd like. Can anyone see a way forward with this?