request-timed-out

I have been diagnosing this issue for a few days and have tested the top issue resolutions that appear for "meteor" and "npm" dependencies that look similar to this one. Both I and my back-end engineer are stumped. I'm using an OSX 10.10.3, ruby 1.9.3, node v0.10.36, npm 1.4.28, meteor 1.1.02. Also, I am not behind a proxy as the error seems to indicate. My environment PATH is: export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin" Here's the error: => Started proxy. => Started MongoDB. npm-container: updating npm dependencies -- hummus, shipping-ups... npm WARN package.json packages-for

Here on StackOverflow, we're seeing a few "Request timed out" exceptions every day. The facts: Request timeout is the default 90 seconds Occurs only on POSTs Data posted is text, usually small (< 1KB), but can range to a few KB No Form data is captured in server variables Client UAs are diverse: IE5.5 - 7, Firefox 3.0.5, iPhone, Chrome Client locations are diverse: UK, France, USA - NC, OH, NE, IN We've tested a server-based timeout (i.e. using Thread.Sleep) and all form variables are correctly captured in the exception log - this leads us to believe the client is having issues sending the