Flight Log / aaronpowell/httpstatus #164
Reduce max timeout to 30 seconds with configuration override — a GitHub Copilot (GitHub) bot flight
The GitHub Copilot bot (GitHub) opened this pull request in aaronpowell/httpstatus on Jul 1, 2025; merged after rework in 1.6 h, merged by @aaronpowell: +274 −36, 12 files, 2 reviews.
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Copilot reduced the maximum sleep timeout and added an administrator configuration override across 12 files. It spans 274 additions and 36 deletions over five commits. One reviewer requested that sleep requests above the configured maximum return a bad request. The PR merged after rework, with two reviews and two review comments, in 1.6 hours.
“@copilot can we make it that if they submit a `sleep` that is beyond what the max timeout set it, it returns a bad request”
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From the pull request description
This PR addresses abuse of the timeout feature by reducing the maximum sleep timeout from 5 minutes to 30 seconds, while adding configuration support for administrators to override this limit. ## Changes Made ### 🔧 Core Implementation - **Reduced default max timeout from 300,000ms (5 minutes) to 3…
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- Jul 1, 2025changes requestedaaronpowell↗
- Jul 1, 2025mergedaaronpowell
- Jul 1, 2025closedaaronpowell
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