Ticket #10414 (new defect (bug))
Some trackbacks timeout due to short timeout period
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | Future Release |
| Component: | Pings/Trackbacks | Version: | 2.8.1 |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | has-patch 2nd-opinion needs-testing |
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Description
A trackback by WordPress to an external blog can timeout without any network congestion. WordPress 2.8.1 timeouts if it has not received any response from the receiving system for 4 seconds although some blog system can take more than 10 seconds to accept a trackback. If the trackback fails, WordPress keeps trying to resend the trackback every time the user posts a new entry, but it never succeeds and WordPress keeps resending for ever. It annoys the blog owner whose blog the WordPress is trying to send the trackback to.
I propose that function trackback in wp-includes/comment.php should be modified for the timeout period to be extended from 4 seconds (e.g. to 30 seconds).
This modification is different from one appeared in ticket #8665.
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- Keywords has-patch 2nd-opinion added
- Milestone changed from Unassigned to 2.9
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gnaka08 — 3 years ago
The timeout in MT4.261 seems to be 60 seconds by default (HTTPTimeout configuration variable). The documentation claims that it is 10 seconds somehow, but lib/MT/Core.pm reads as 60 seconds to me.
http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/appendices/config-directives/httptimeout.html
Japanese-localized documentation tells that it has been changed to 60 seconds since version 3.3.
http://www.movabletype.jp/documentation/appendices/config-directives/httptimeout.html
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janeforshort — 2 years ago
- Keywords needs-testing added
- Severity changed from major to normal
- Milestone changed from 2.9 to Future Release
Punting due to lack of testing and community traction.

