How to set the request timeout in a Tornado server?

Question

I'm running the gstreamer server for kaldi, which uses tornado internally to provide an HTTP end-point for transcription, eg example.com:8888/dynamic/recognize

I think this is the relevant code:

class Application(tornado.web.Application):
    def __init__(self):
        settings = dict(
            template_path=os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__)), "templates"),
            static_path=os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__)), "static"),
            autoescape=None,
        )

        handlers = [
            [...]
            (r"/client/dynamic/recognize", HttpChunkedRecognizeHandler),
            [...],
        ]
        tornado.web.Application.__init__(self, handlers, **settings)

Source

I'm not familiar with Tornado, but looking at tornado.web.Application docs , I don't see any mention of timeouts in settings .

I saw several other similar questions, eg this one , but they deal with the client side. This answer seems relevant, but I'm not sure how to apply it in my case.

Answer 1

Tornado does not have a generic timeout mechanism since it is often used for long-polling and similar requests. The application (in this case, gstreamer) is responsible for managing whatever timeouts it wants to set on its own.