Cowboy - Request Timeouts

3 Nov 2013 19:56 erlang-cowboy

Cowboy protects itself against slow requests by doing the following:

At the top of cowboy_protocol:init, it works out, in clock time, when the request should be finished:

wait_request(#state{until=until(Timeout)}).

until(infinity) -> infinity;
until(Timeout) -> to_milliseconds(os:timestamp()) + Timeout.

By wrapping Transport::recv (which might be called multiple times while parsing an incoming request) in order to track total time elapsed:

recv(Socket, Transport, infinity) ->
    Transport:recv(Socket, 0, infinity);
recv(Socket, Transport, Until) ->
    Now = to_milliseconds(os:timestamp())
    Timeout = Until - Now,
    if Timeout < 0 -> {error, timeout};
       true -> Transport:recv(Socket, 0, Timeout)
    end.