aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
-rw-r--r--src/bitcoin-cli.cpp15
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/bitcoin-cli.cpp b/src/bitcoin-cli.cpp
index 73773c4ec5..71b40dca16 100644
--- a/src/bitcoin-cli.cpp
+++ b/src/bitcoin-cli.cpp
@@ -316,7 +316,20 @@ static UniValue CallRPC(BaseRequestHandler *rh, const std::string& strMethod, co
// Synchronously look up hostname
raii_evhttp_connection evcon = obtain_evhttp_connection_base(base.get(), host, port);
- evhttp_connection_set_timeout(evcon.get(), gArgs.GetArg("-rpcclienttimeout", DEFAULT_HTTP_CLIENT_TIMEOUT));
+
+ // Set connection timeout
+ {
+ const int timeout = gArgs.GetArg("-rpcclienttimeout", DEFAULT_HTTP_CLIENT_TIMEOUT);
+ if (timeout > 0) {
+ evhttp_connection_set_timeout(evcon.get(), timeout);
+ } else {
+ // Indefinite request timeouts are not possible in libevent-http, so we
+ // set the timeout to a very long time period instead.
+
+ constexpr int YEAR_IN_SECONDS = 31556952; // Average length of year in Gregorian calendar
+ evhttp_connection_set_timeout(evcon.get(), 5 * YEAR_IN_SECONDS);
+ }
+ }
HTTPReply response;
raii_evhttp_request req = obtain_evhttp_request(http_request_done, (void*)&response);