Lower user agent inactivity timeout to 45 seconds (#6950).

2 files changed, 17 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/htdocs/whatsnew.html b/htdocs/whatsnew.html
index a70ff70..9fd8dd8 100755
--- a/htdocs/whatsnew.html
+++ b/htdocs/whatsnew.html
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: whatsnew.html,v 1.89 2009-12-05 10:24:20 ville Exp $"
---><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2009-12-05 10:24:20 $"
+<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: whatsnew.html,v 1.90 2009-12-10 19:28:13 ville Exp $"
+--><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2009-12-10 19:28:13 $"
 --><!--#set var="title" value="What's New at The W3C Markup Validation Service"
 --><!--#set var="relroot" value="./"
 --><!--#set var="feeds" value="1"
@@ -89,6 +89,12 @@
               1.0 (20091029 Working Draft)</a>.
           </li>
           <li>
+            Enhancement: the inactivity timeout when retrieving documents has
+            been
+            <a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6950">lowered
+              to 45 seconds</a>.
+          </li>
+          <li>
             Bug fix:
             <a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5132">full
               document doctype was incorrectly in effect</a> when validating
diff --git a/httpd/cgi-bin/check b/httpd/cgi-bin/check
index 0c9cf35..1ced5f3 100755
--- a/httpd/cgi-bin/check
+++ b/httpd/cgi-bin/check
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 # This source code is available under the license at:
 #     http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software
 #
-# $Id: check,v 1.745 2009-12-05 10:22:04 ville Exp $
+# $Id: check,v 1.746 2009-12-10 19:28:13 ville Exp $
 
 #
 # We need Perl 5.8.0+.
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ EOF
 
     #
     # Strings
-    $VERSION = q$Revision: 1.745 $;
+    $VERSION = q$Revision: 1.746 $;
     $VERSION =~ s/Revision: ([\d\.]+) /$1/;
 
     # Read friendly error message file
@@ -3560,6 +3560,13 @@ sub new
         'Accept-Encoding' => scalar HTTP::Message::decodable())
         if (!$File->{Opt}->{Debug} && HTTP::Message->can('decodable'));
 
+    # Our timeout should be set to something lower than the web server's,
+    # remembering to give some head room for the actual validation to take
+    # place after the document has been fetched (something like 15 seconds
+    # should be plenty).  validator.w3.org instances have their timeout set
+    # to 60 seconds as of writing this (#4985, #6950).
+    $self->timeout(45);
+
     return $self;
 }