[SOLVED] How to get timeout in Lua https

[Gunroar:Cannon()]

love 12 provides lua-https. love 11 doesn't provide it itself but you can get or make a standalone build of it.

I can't seem to set the timeout for lua-https, so that it will stop stalling/hanging the game after one second and not ~10 seconds like it currently does.

Setting https.TIMEOUT/http.TIMEOUT doesn't work, neither does setting it in the options argument. I've browsed and looked around and besides these I can't find it.

[slime]

What made you assume there is a timeout API?

If you want to prevent stalls, you'd need to use a thread since any https request, even successful ones that happen quickly, will block the thread they're called from until the request is done. That being said, what sort of situation are you creating where you're regularly expecting a timeout?

[Gunroar:Cannon()]

I thought there were timeouts because I saw some stuff when I browsed it. I know it's not the same lib, but there were many different pages like this.

I'm doing a thing where I check and submit scores to Lootlocker after a game. If there is no connection at all it's fine because it just loads and skips immediately, but if there is a bad connection, or one without data, the display I put up that says "Checking online scores"* will show for a long time (i.e. the game will hang for a really long time) even though I know at that point it shouldn't take more than a few seconds.

Also I thought, being a newb in most things, that all https/http libs had a way to include timeout. Like how they all have a way to include body/data.

So the only way to introduce timeouts is with threads?

* I put a display that greys over the whole game and shows that text so players will atleast know why the game is hanging.

[slime]

I thought there were timeouts because I saw some stuff when I browsed it. I know it's not the same lib, but there were many different pages like this.

Yeah, that's for a totally different library with different APIs.

[Gunroar:Cannon()]

Yeah, that's for a totally different library with different APIs.

I implemented it...

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local _https = require("https")

local https = {
    request = function(url, body, timeout)
        local threadCode = string.format([[       
            local url, body = ...
            
            local _https = require("https")
            
            local code, response, b, c = _https.request(url, body)
            love.thread.getChannel("code"):push(code)
            love.thread.getChannel("response"):push(response)
        ]])
        
        thr = love.thread.newThread(threadCode)
        thr:start(url, body)
        
        local code = love.thread.getChannel("code"):pop()
        
        if code then
            return code, love.thread.getChannel("response"):pop()
        end
        
        love.timer.sleep(timeout or body.timeout or 2)
        
        local code = love.thread.getChannel("code"):pop()
        if code then
            return code, love.thread.getChannel("response"):pop()
        else
            return 0, "timed out"
        end
        
    end
}

Nothing too fancy, just a basic mock up (it works though).