From abfabebcd6486106b7b9e87acfdb759834a375ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard van der Hoff <richard@matrix.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 22:16:33 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Rust crypto: set a timeout on outgoing HTTP requests

---
 src/rust-crypto/OutgoingRequestProcessor.ts | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/rust-crypto/OutgoingRequestProcessor.ts b/src/rust-crypto/OutgoingRequestProcessor.ts
index 00ccb920ce9..2633c9d783f 100644
--- a/src/rust-crypto/OutgoingRequestProcessor.ts
+++ b/src/rust-crypto/OutgoingRequestProcessor.ts
@@ -219,6 +219,12 @@ export class OutgoingRequestProcessor {
 
             // we use the full prefix
             prefix: "",
+
+            // We set a timeout of 60 seconds to guard against requests getting stuck forever and wedging the
+            // request loop (cf https://github.com/element-hq/element-web/issues/29534).
+            //
+            // (XXX: should we do this in the whole of the js-sdk?)
+            localTimeoutMs: 60000,
         };
 
         return await this.http.authedRequest<string>(method, path, queryParams, body, opts);