Elapsed time timeout

[shaicoleman]

I believe at the moment it's only possibly to either specify a per operation timeout or a global timeout. Would be good if it were possible to combine both timeouts, e.g.
HTTP.timeout(global: 60, connect: 5, write: 2, read: 10).get 'http://example.com'

This is needed to handle servers that send unending responses or that send out data very slowly.

[ixti]

Hm... But global timeout is doing a bit different thing, it's basically timeout for connect + write + read. IN other words it won't solve your problem if I understand correctly.

[shaicoleman]

In that case perhaps a different term is needed, e.g.

• elapsed time timeout
• overall timeout
• total time timeout
• cumulative time timeout

[tarcieri]

Closing in favor of #773