This request is full of win.

Hello, we are interested in this merge, is there a timeline / estimate for a release ?

cheers

Me, too. The salesforce connection has been silent for 7 hours

+1

In light of recent Salesforce issues, it seems like this is getting more and more critical.

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So you can actually set a timeout for every call of a particular requests session by attaching your own HTTP adapter. This is the solution I've used in my own usage of simple_salesforce as well as for other modules that let you provide your own requests.Session() object.

class TimeoutAdapter(requests.adapters.HTTPAdapter):
    def send(self, *args, **kwargs):
        kwargs['timeout'] = 30
        return super().send(*args, **kwargs)

sfSession = requests.Session()
sfSession.mount("https://", TimeoutAdapter())
sfSession.mount("http://", TimeoutAdapter())

Then pass session=sfSession when you instantiate your Salesforce object.

There is actually a lot of powerful things you can do with overriding parts of the default HTTPAdaptor in requests.
https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/master/user/advanced/#transport-adapters