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| -rw-r--r-- | src/bitcoin-cli.cpp | 15 |
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); |