How to force a timeout?

[vitidev]

The documentation says that TimeoutException raises after a given period of inactivity.
But what to do if there is no inactivity? - the file downloads slowly, but downloads and no TimeoutException occurs

for example

   timeout = httpx.Timeout(1.0)
   r = await client.get(url, timeout=timeout)

will work until everything downloads
In this case aiohttp raise TimeoutError after 1 seconds

[tomchristie]

We don't currently have any timeout parameter for the entire response.

There's some discussion on adding further resource limits, here... #1450 (comment)

[lewoudar]

@vitidev I think you can do something like this. I generally prefer this pattern instead of configuring x timeouts.

import anyio
import httpx


async def main():
    with anyio.move_on_after(1.0) as scope:
        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url='https://example.com', timeout=None) as client:
            print(await client.get('/'))

    print('scope cancelled:', scope.cancel_called)


anyio.run(main)