[SOLVED] urllib3 - Timeout and Retry

urllib3 - Timeout and Retry

We would like to set the timeout for our REST call. However, when the timeout is reached, will it automatically do a retry (up to the default max of 3)? The documentation is not real clear.

http = urllib3.PoolManager(cert_reqs='CERT_REQUIRED', ca_certs=os.getenv('SSL_CERT_FILE'))

try:

    resp = http.request(
        'GET',
        newurl,
        decode_content=True,
        headers={'Accept': 'application/json'},
        timeout=1
    )

Solution

Yeah, we ended up using this approach.

retry = Retry(
    total=3, 
    raise_on_status=True, 
    backoff_factor=0.1, 
    status_forcelist=[429,500,502,503,504]
)
timeout = Timeout(1.0)

http = urllib3.PoolManager(
    cert_reqs='CERT_REQUIRED', 
    ca_certs=os.getenv('SSL_CERT_FILE'), 
    retries=retry, 
    timeout=timeout
)

try:
    resp = http.request(
        'GET',
        newurl,
        decode_content=True,
        headers={'Accept':'application/json'}
    )