HTTP request timeout

[Tom]

Good afternoon everyone,

I was wondering if anyone could tell me what the default HTTP request
timeout is when using express. What I mean by this is: after how many
seconds of dealing with a http request before ending it will the
server automatically close the connection?

How do I alter this timeout? I would like to set it to about 15
minutes for a special audio conversion route.

Thanks a lot.

Tom

[David Ellis]

It looks like you want something like:

request.connection.setTimeout(15*60*1000);

Based on the Node.js 0.4.10 documentation:

http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.4.10/api/http.html#request.connection
http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.4.10/api/net.html#socket.setTimeout

David

[Tom]

Thanks David. I'm not entirely sure whether this is all there is to it though. From the docs:

"By default net.Socket do not have a timeout."

I'm quite positive I've heard that express times out after 2 minutes. Could anyone confirm or deny this?

Tom

2011/8/29 David Ellis <isv.da...@gmail.com>

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[TJ Holowaychuk]

http.js, not express

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[Tom]

Thanks TJ,

Could you confirm whether setting this request.connection.setTimeout would do the trick?

Tom

2011/8/29 TJ Holowaychuk <t...@vision-media.ca>

[TJ Holowaychuk]

yeah it should. though I think req.connection might be deprecated,

or maybe it was req.socket, not sure

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[Tom]

Oh? In that case, what should be used instead?

[TJ Holowaychuk]

doesnt really matter, one of those, i prefer req.socket

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