Network.http.connect.timeout

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The correct title of this article is network.http.connect.timeout. It appears incorrectly here due to technical limitations in the wiki software.

1 Background
2 Possible values and their effects
3 Caveats
4 First checked in
5 Has an effect in
6 Related bugs
7 Related preferences
8 External links

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Background

This preference was one of several added to allow low-level tweaking of the HTTP networking code. After a portion of the same code was significantly rewritten in 2001, the preference ceased to have any effect (as noted in all.js as early as September 2001).

Currently, the timeout is determined by the system-level connection establishment timeout. Adding a way to configure this value is considered low-priority.

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Possible values and their effects

This integer preference specified the number of seconds to wait after firing off an HTTP request before considering it “timed out”. It was originally set to 30 by default. This preference no longer has an effect.

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Caveats

This preference was an entry in all.js for over four years after the code stopped using it. This was recently rectified, and it no longer appears in the default about:config listing.

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