timeout_global (60 s) covered a whole request, and a request can carry
8 MiB (max_request): below about 140 KB/s every block run timed out, was
retried from scratch and failed, so a slow link could not read remote
files at all.
HttpOptions::timeout (now 30 s) bounds connecting and receiving the
response headers; the body gets timeout + its size at the new
HttpOptions::min_speed (16 KiB/s by default: 94 s for a 1 MiB block).
A slow but moving link is not cut off; a stalled one still fails.
(ureq has no idle timeout; its body timeout is a total budget.)
The test server can throttle bodies and stall mid-body. Test: a 256 KiB
block at 256 KiB/s reads with a 300 ms timeout (it failed before), and a
body stalled for 20 s fails in under 5 s.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>