Hello Marco,

looks like you are right. However, I don't think this is a deliberate design decision, but a simple bug in our implementation. Do you think you could send us a small pull request so we can fix this and match the specification?

Cheers
Dirk

On 09/09/2015 12:26 PM, Marco Lettere wrote:
Hello all,
I think there is a mismatch in the semantics of timeout for the http:request datastructure. expath says it's in seconds where as the basex impl treats it as milliseconds. Could you confirm this?

The expath states:

[...]
timeout is the maximum number of seconds to wait for the server to respond. If this time duration is reached, an error is thrown [err:HC006].
[...]

whereas in the HttpClient (lines 168 and 169) the code for setting the timeout is the following:

[...]
final String timeout = request.attribute(TIMEOUT);
if(timeout != null) conn.setConnectTimeout(Strings.toInt(timeout));
[...]

conn being an instance of HttpUrlConnection and the documentation of
setConnectTimeout states it to be in milliseconds.

If this is not my bad interpretation, maybe a note in the docs should be provided ...
Regards,
Marco.

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