Setting a maximum timeout

[chuyskywalker]

I've poked around the code, example ino files, issues, and arduino forums for this, but I can't seem to find a reliable way to set a timeout for the HTTP request.

My code, essentially, boils down to this:

void send_data() {

  unsigned long millistart = millis();
  String url = "id=somedatahere";

  // new client each time
  HttpClient http(client, traccar_server, traccar_port);

  // start for the / url, and set some timeouts
  http.beginRequest();
  http.setTimeout(5000);
  http.setHttpResponseTimeout(5000);  
  int err = http.post("/", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", url);
  http.endRequest();

  SerialMon.println("> post done (" + String((millis() - millistart)/1000.0,2) + "s)");
}

(The above is paraphrased and not necessarily working code, the full code is available here but has all kinds of other GPS/data/modem stuff going on as well.)

Yet I routinely see the "post done" showing times well in excess of 10 seconds and sometimes even up to 75 seconds or so (which is a real fishy number, like a 60s timeout on top of a 15s from something else).

Setup info:

• Device: LILYGO T-SIM7000G ESP32-WROVER-B
• Arduino IDE 2.1.0
• ArduinoHttpClient 0.4.0

How can I set a overall timeout for a given HTTP request?