For instructions on how to set longer timeouts, explore the examples provided in this article. Additionally, we encourage you to enhance your script with resiliency features that enable automatic retries for specific responses or errors.
A simple timeout error occurring at the 5-second mark corresponds to the default timeout setting in the Python HttpX library. While there are other causes for timeout errors, this is a common error we see. For guidance on configuring longer timeouts, please refer to our examples here.
If you are experiencing timeout errors, we recommend adding resiliency to the script you are using; so that it automatically retries certain responses/errors. Here is an example of how to check status/exceptions and retry requests as needed in our examples here.
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