Document Difference Between the Two Time-Out Options

[Dzol]

This should resolve #299

Some resources to save digging around:

• https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/blob/1.8.6/src/hackney_response.erl#L336
• https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/blob/1.8.6/src/hackney_connect.erl
• http://erlang.org/doc/man/gen_tcp.html#connect-4
• http://erlang.org/doc/man/ssl.html#connect-4

[jaimeiniesta]

Thanks for the clarification. Just to be sure about this:

:recv_timeout - timeout for receiving an HTTP response from the socket. Default is 5000

Is this the max time to receive the whole response, or to start receiving it? I mean, if I start receiving the response soon but it's a huge document that takes 10 seconds to download, will it time out?

[jaimeiniesta]

Also, I assume these timeouts are considered one after the other. First there's the connection timeout, and after that the recv_timeout, right?

That is, if I have timeout=8000, recv_timeout=5000 then the request can take in total up to 13 seconds.