requests.{get,post} timeout

[Skip Montanaro]

> """
> Once your client has connected to the server and sent the HTTP
> request, the read timeout is the number of seconds the client will
> wait for the server to send a response. (Specifically, it's the number
> of seconds that the client will wait between bytes sent from the
> server. In 99.9% of cases, this is the time before the server sends
> the first byte).
> """
>
> "Between bytes" implies that you could have a long request, as long as
> there's a keep-alive transmission every few seconds.

Thanks, Chris. That appears to be what's going on.

S