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[Feature request] Time param (-t) unit in ms instead of sec #117

Closed petsam closed 6 years ago

petsam commented 6 years ago

If it is possible please change the response time limit to milliseconds instead of seconds. The second limit seems too wide for the purpose it serves IMHO. It is supposed to be multiplied by a large amount of downloading data, combined with speed. I cannot explain it well with my English language skills. Time is good to sort on but when it comes as a limit, it would be fair to be in milliseconds if it makes sense for the server capabilities (don't know enough of that).

fhdk commented 6 years ago

You can change the timeout with -t but the timeout only comes into play if the probed mirror's response time is longer than the default 2 seconds .

Also - when probing ssl enabled mirrors - handshake also takes time which is why pacman-mirrors doubles the timeout value when probing mirrors using https.

Again this is a feature - not a bug.