request-without-timeout (S113)#
Derived from the flake8-bandit linter.
What it does#
Checks for uses of the Python requests
module that omit the timeout
parameter.
Why is this bad?#
The timeout
parameter is used to set the maximum time to wait for a
response from the server. By omitting the timeout
parameter, the program
may hang indefinitely while awaiting a response.
Example#
Use instead: