[LIBCLOUD-199] Add http connection timeout to openstack and libcloud connections

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.8.0, 0.9.1
• Fix Version/s: 0.11.0
• Component/s: Compute, Core
• Labels: auth authentication openstack, timeout,
• Assignee: Tomaz Muraus
• Reporter: Chris Gilmer
• Created: 17/May/12 22:56
• Updated: 13/Oct/12 23:51
• Resolved: 29/May/12 04:25

Description

Authentication calls to an openstack endpoint (in this case Rackspace) will occasionally create a connection that will stay open indefinitely. By adding a timeout I can force the connection to close after a few seconds. That way I can catch this behavior with an exception and log the error before the server request times out. In this branch I add a timeout kwarg and set a reasonable default of 200 seconds.