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# Your Timeouts Are Wrong and Here Is How to Set Them
- URL: https://debugly.dev/how-to-set-timeouts-correctly/
- Published: 2025-12-16T09:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-17T05:49:30.000Z
- Description: A missing timeout turns a slow dependency into an outage. A badly chosen one turns a blip into a retry storm. Both are common.
- Author: Rohit Bhadani
- Tags: Networking, DevOps, Debugging, Node.js

| Client          | Default connect timeout | Default read timeout |
| --------------- | ----------------------- | -------------------- |
| Python requests | none                    | none                 |
| Node fetch      | \~300s (OS)             | none                 |
| Go http.Client  | none                    | none                 |
| Java HttpClient | none                    | none                 |
| curl            | 300s                    | none                 |

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