Python Requests Post Default Timeout
If you're working with Python and sending requests to a server using the Requests library, you may want to set a default timeout for your post requests.
Here's an example of how to do it:
import requests
default_timeout = 5 # seconds
response = requests.post('http://example.com', timeout=default_timeout)
print(response.content)In this example, we set the default timeout to 5 seconds by assigning it to a variable called default_timeout. Then, when we send a post request using the requests.post() method, we pass in the timeout argument and set it to our default_timeout variable.
If the server doesn't respond within 5 seconds, the request will time out and an exception will be raised.
Other Ways to Set a Timeout
There are a few other ways to set a timeout for your requests:
- You can set a timeout for a single request by passing in the timeout argument:
response = requests.post('http://example.com', timeout=5)- You can set a global timeout for all requests by configuring the Session object:
import requests
session = requests.Session()
session.timeout = 5 # seconds
response = session.post('http://example.com')
print(response.content)- You can set a default timeout for all requests by configuring the default timeout of the Session object:
import requests
session = requests.Session()
session.mount('http://', requests.adapters.HTTPAdapter(pool_connections=5, pool_maxsize=5, max_retries=5))
session.timeout = 5 # seconds
response = session.post('http://example.com')
print(response.content)