Add timeout support for http/https requests #594
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Title
Add timeout support for http/https requests
Motivation
Requests supports timeouts and their own docs recommend setting a timeout for production use.
Timeouts
This is especially true in cloud envs (e.g. AWS Lambda) where you are charged by the millisecond and can only be so patient for an HTTP endpoint to respond.
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