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chrizonline
chrizonline

Reputation: 4979

Why do I receive a timeout error from Pythons requests module?

I use requests.post(url, headers, timeout=10) and sometimes I received a ReadTimeout exception HTTPSConnectionPool(host='domain.com', port=443): Read timed out. (read timeout=10)

Since I already set timeout as 10 seconds, why am I still receiving a ReadTimeout exception?

Upvotes: 36

Views: 107390

Answers (3)

Foon
Foon

Reputation: 6458

Per https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/quickstart/#timeouts, that is the expected behavior. As royhowie mentioned, wrap it in a try/except block (e.g.:

try:
  requests.post(url, headers, timeout=10)
except requests.exceptions.Timeout:
  print "Timeout occurred"

)

Upvotes: 63

Attrey
Attrey

Reputation: 41

Another thing you can try is at the end of your code block, include the following:

time.sleep(2)

This worked for me. The delay is longer (in seconds) but might help overcome the issue you're having.

Upvotes: 2

GLHF
GLHF

Reputation: 4035

try:
    #defined request goes here
except requests.exceptions.ReadTimeout:
    # Set up for a retry, or continue in a retry loop

You can wrap it like an exception block like this. Since you asked for this only ReadTimeout. Otherwise catch all of them;

try:
    #defined request goes here
except:
    # Set up for a retry, or continue in a retry loop

Upvotes: 10

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