Ansible winrm timeout

[David O'Brien]

And another one...

I have a PowerShell script that I copy to a Windows host via the win_template module.
Then I go and use the raw module to execute that script:

- name: Copy PowerShell script to remote host
  win_template:
    src: /container/ansible/roles/test/templates/download_s3_bucket.ps1.j2
    dest: "c:\\s3downloads\\download_s3_bucket.ps1"

- name: Download Installer from S3 bucket
  raw: "powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File 'c:\\s3downloads\\download_s3_bucket.ps1'"

The second task continuously fails, all the time, after about 60 seconds.

This is the output:

TASK [Download Installer from S3 bucket] **********************************
task path: /container/ansible/roles/test/tasks/configure-ec2.yml:15
<ip-10-178-72-114.ap-southeast-2.compute.internal> ESTABLISH WINRM CONNECTION FOR USER: Administrator on PORT 5986 TO ip-10-178-72-114.ap-southeast-2.compute.internal
<ip-10-178-72-114.ap-southeast-2.compute.internal> EXEC powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File 'c:\s3downloads\download_s3_bucket.ps1'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/plugins/connection/winrm.py", line 244, in exec_command
    result = self._winrm_exec(cmd_parts[0], cmd_parts[1:], from_exec=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/plugins/connection/winrm.py", line 212, in _winrm_exec
    self.protocol.cleanup_command(self.shell_id, command_id)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/winrm/protocol.py", line 290, in cleanup_command
    rs = self.send_message(xmltodict.unparse(rq))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/winrm/protocol.py", line 193, in send_message
    return self.transport.send_message(message)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/winrm/transport.py", line 138, in send_message
    raise WinRMTransportError('http', ex.reason)
WinRMTransportError: 500 WinRMTransport. [Errno 110] Connection timed out
fatal: [ip-10-178-72-114.ap-southeast-2.compute.internal]: FAILED! => {"failed": true, "msg": "failed to exec cmd powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File 'c:\\s3downloads\\download_s3_bucket.ps1'"}

It looks like transport.py doesn't have a timeout set higher than the default for HTTPS connections, only for HTTP it is set to self.timeout = 3600.
Am I right in thinking that we need to patch transport.py for longer lasting HTTPS connections?

I am on Ansible 2.0.1, I'm running it on Centos and against a Windows Server 2012R2.

[David O'Brien]

Added issue here: https://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/issues/91