From 7ed2f9bd9a092760cbb80f848ec38c9b7f500af0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Baker <dave@matrix.org>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2022 11:46:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Lower timeout on js-sdk API call to 5s

---
 src/matrix-utils.ts | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/matrix-utils.ts b/src/matrix-utils.ts
index e3617c5..e3b236f 100644
--- a/src/matrix-utils.ts
+++ b/src/matrix-utils.ts
@@ -80,6 +80,9 @@ export async function initClient(
     ...storeOpts,
     ...clientOptions,
     useAuthorizationHeader: true,
+    // Use a relatively low timeout for API calls: this is a realtime
+    // so we don't want API calls taking ages, we'd rather they just fail.
+    localTimeoutMs: 5000,
   });
 
   try {