httpclient: document connect_timeout/request_timeout 0 value

not exactly true for curl_httpclient (libcurl uses a connect_timeout
of 300 seconds if no connect timeout is set) but close enough

diff --git a/tornado/httpclient.py b/tornado/httpclient.py
index 7eebf033412d3fd78fb92a5f4e7bed8a772ca0d0..3011c371b83f62f45e1198fc817a5969413c8e12 100644 (file)
--- a/tornado/httpclient.py
+++ b/tornado/httpclient.py
@@ -421,9 +421,9 @@ class HTTPRequest(object):
            supports "basic" and "digest"; ``simple_httpclient`` only supports
            "basic"
         :arg float connect_timeout: Timeout for initial connection in seconds,
-           default 20 seconds
+           default 20 seconds (0 means no timeout)
         :arg float request_timeout: Timeout for entire request in seconds,
-           default 20 seconds
+           default 20 seconds (0 means no timeout)
         :arg if_modified_since: Timestamp for ``If-Modified-Since`` header
         :type if_modified_since: `datetime` or `float`
         :arg bool follow_redirects: Should redirects be followed automatically