Why doesn't requests.get() return? What is the default timeout that requests.get() uses?

Question

In my script, requests.get never returns:

import requests

print (\"requesting..\")

# This call never returns!
r = requests.get(
    \"http://w         


        

Answer 1

Patching the documented "send" function will fix this for all requests - even in many dependent libraries and sdk's. When patching libs, be sure to patch supported/documented functions, not TimeoutSauce - otherwise you may wind up silently losing the effect of your patch.

import requests

DEFAULT_TIMEOUT = 180

old_send = requests.Session.send

def new_send(*args, **kwargs):
     if kwargs.get("timeout", None) is None:
         kwargs["timeout"] = DEFAULT_TIMEOUT
     return old_send(*args, **kwargs)

requests.Session.send = new_send

The effects of not having any timeout are quite severe, and the use of a default timeout can almost never break anything - because TCP itself has default timeouts as well.