>> Or maybe I misunderstood the docs and the timeout means the max. time >> elapsed between receiving two chunks of data from the server? > Yes. It's documented better here: > http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/advanced/#timeouts > > You can't specify a "total time" within which the operation must > succeed or be abandoned, but if you specify a timeout and the > server stops responding, either at the start of the process or > in the middle of the response, then it will time out after the > specified delay. Very good, thank you! Setting the timeout solved the problem for now. :-)
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