Connection timeout and read timeout are set for httpUser requests, but max rt far exceeds the set timeout for proxy requests.

[GeraldWhitehead]

When I set the connection timeout to 0.001 and the read timeout to 60, the max(ms) of the locust web page is 9. My understanding is that I set the connection timeout to 0.001s, which is 1ms, so if I don't connect within 1ms, then the interface reports a timeout, so the max(ms) of the locust web should be 1. But The max(ms) value of locust web should be 1, but it actually shows 9. As shown in the figure below

No proxy set
with self.client.get(url="https://ifconfig.me", headers=header, params=None, allow_redirects=True, proxies=None, timeout=(0.001, 60), catch_response=True) as response:

After I set the proxy proxies, the connection timeout is still 0.001, the read timeout is still 60, and the max(ms) of the locust web page is 5007. My understanding is that I set the connection timeout to 0.001s, which is 1ms, so if I don't connect within 1ms, the interface reports a timeout, so the max(ms) of the locust web page should be 1, but it actually shows 9. The max(ms) value of locust web should be 1, but it actually shows 5007, why does max become so big after adding the proxy, and its value is bigger than the timeout 0.001 that I set?

Proxy set up
with self.client.get(url="https://ifconfig.me", headers=header, params=None, allow_redirects=True, proxies=proxies, timeout=(0.001, 60), catch_response=True) as response:

The timeout I set is in effect because the status_code of the interface is all 0

[cyberw]

Hmm.. good question. HttpUser.client is basically a simple wrapper around requests.Session, so this behavior is not implemented in Locust itself.

I think this is just the normal behavior of requests (check their docs and/or google the issue in that context), but why they chose to do it that way I have no idea.

Maybe try switching to FastHttpUser and see if that better matches your desired timeout behavior.

[GeraldWhitehead]

Thank you for your reply.
It seems that FastHttpUser doesn't support adding proxies and setting timeouts individually, I've had a similar problem before geventhttpclient/geventhttpclient#223
geventhttpclient/geventhttpclient#222

[GeraldWhitehead]

By the way, does FastHttpUser support setting up proxies, geventhttpclient is not supported, refer to my link above. I see that locust's documentation has proxy_host and proxy_port parameters, and my proxy is used in httpUser as follows

from locust import task, TaskSet, HttpUser


class UserStressTest(TaskSet):
    @task(1)
    def task_1(self):
        # Removed key information
        ip_proxy = {"http": f"socks5://6b8c0xxxxxx0fe24:[email protected]:10000",
                    "https": f"socks5://6b8c0xxxxxx0fe24:[email protected]:10000"}
        response = self.client.get(url="https://ifconfig.me", params=None, proxies=ip_proxy,
                                   allow_redirects=True, catch_response=True,
                                   )
        print(response.status_code, response.text)


class TestLocustFile(HttpUser):
    host = "https://ifconfig.me"
    tasks = [UserStressTest]

I've tried a couple of ways and nothing works，If locust's FastHttpUser supports setting proxy, then how do I set it up.