Last modified: 2014-02-12 23:38:05 UTC
When calling the API of other wikis using HTTP, as for instance MediaWikiSite does in order to normalize page titles, provide options to Http::get() to force a reasonable timeout and perhaps other hints.
Re Quim reassinging this bug to the API component: The "API" component is for bugs in the API itself. This bug is about other things calling the API on other wikis and not specifying timeouts, which is a problem in those other things.
Assigning this to the wikibase repo extension. The subject of this ticket is specifically, how wikibase can call out to other site's api without blocking for too long.
[replacing wikidata keyword by adding CC - see bug 56417]