Python requests post increase timeout
In Python, requests module is used to send HTTP requests and receive responses from the server. The module provides various methods to send HTTP requests such as GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc.
Sometimes, while sending a POST request using the requests.post() method, the server may take longer than expected to respond. In such cases, the default timeout of 5 seconds may not be sufficient, and we may need to increase the timeout.
To increase the timeout for a POST request in Python requests module, we can pass a value for the timeout parameter in the requests.post() method. The value should be in seconds.
Example:
import requests
# Increase timeout to 10 seconds
response = requests.post(url, data={}, timeout=10)
# Increase timeout to 30 seconds
response = requests.post(url, data={}, timeout=30)
In the above example, we are sending a POST request to a URL and passing an empty dictionary as data. We are also setting the timeout parameter to 10 seconds and 30 seconds respectively in two separate requests.
If the server takes more than 10 seconds or 30 seconds respectively to respond, the POST request will raise a requests.exceptions.Timeout exception.
Alternatively, we can also set a default timeout for all requests made using the requests module by setting the timeout parameter in the requests.Session() method.
Example:
import requests
# Set default timeout to 15 seconds
session = requests.Session()
session.timeout = 15
# Send POST request
response = session.post(url, data={})
In the above example, we are creating a new session using the requests.Session() method and setting the timeout parameter to 15 seconds. We are then sending a POST request using the session.post() method.
If the server takes more than 15 seconds to respond, the POST request will raise a requests.exceptions.Timeout exception.