René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"default (per API request) timeout of 5 minutes","articleBody":" **Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**\r\n\r\nSince we don't have a timeout by default on our HTTP calls, it's possible that they hang much longer than expected.\r\n\r\n **Describe the solution you'd like**\r\n\r\nSet a default timeout to 5 minutes.\r\n\r\nAs I found in https://github.com/googleapis/python-bigquery/pull/859, many of the backend BigQuery APIs have a deadline of 4 minutes. Giving ourselves 5 minutes per request should be enough time to account for any network latency and download time.\r\n\r\n **Describe alternatives you've considered**\r\n\r\nStatus quo. -- This makes the time that a request can complete less predicable though.\r\n\r\n **Additional context**\r\n\r\nI recall we tried this once before, but reverted it due to too many flakey tests: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/10219\r\n\r\nThat was with 60 seconds, whereas the backend deadline is 4 minutes, so perhaps it's not all too surprising that there were flakes?\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/tswast","@type":"Person","name":"tswast"},"datePublished":"2021-08-20T14:41:59.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/889/python-bigquery/issues/889"}