Bug #4791: Doc: Clarification on allowed timeout values

• Status: Closed
• Priority: Normal
• Assignee: drbrain (Eric Hodel)
• Target version: 1.9.3
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3dev (2011-05-11 trunk 31504) [x86_64-darwin10.7.0]
• Backport: 2.2: UNKNOWN, 2.3: UNKNOWN, 2.4: UNKNOWN

[amikula (Alf Mikula)]

This patch clarifies what is an acceptable timeout value in Net::HTTP and Timeout::timeout. The existing documentation does not clearly indicate that fractional seconds may be specified, leaving the reader to guess whether only integer values or float values are allowed. Ultimately, Kernel::sleep is called, which accepts any number.

[drbrain (Eric Hodel)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed
• % Done changed from 0 to 100

This issue was solved with changeset r32116.
Alf, thank you for reporting this issue.
Your contribution to Ruby is greatly appreciated.
May Ruby be with you.

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• lib/timeout.rb: Clarify timeout duration types. Patch by Alf Mikula. [Ruby 1.9 - Bug #4791]
  • lib/net/http.rb: ditto