> I am having a similar problem, I have a big request and I get a timeout. Could this be because of a buffer overflow? Have you found a solution for this?
This turned out to be really strange. I thought it might be something between the httpi version and the used net adapter (net/http by default if I remember correctly). I started to go back on the httpi gem versions and was having some fairly inconsistent (error) results. Then I swapped the adapter used and first tried HTTPClient and had same problems and finally I tried Curb and suddenly all was fine. But what is really strange is that after using Curb as adapter I once more returned to the original gem/library setup which was failing before and suddenly that was working also again.
So really can't tell what exactly was the problem, but after fiddling with different adapters, now everything works.
Cheers,
jokke