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.