connection.rb in chef-api-0.8.0

- old
+ new

@@ -251,9 +251,14 @@
       # to +nil+, we can just pass it to the initializer method instead of doing
       # crazy strange conditionals.
       connection = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port,
         proxy_address, proxy_port, proxy_username, proxy_password)
 
+      # Large or filtered result sets can take a long time to return, so allow
+      # setting a longer read_timeout for our client if we want to make an
+      # expensive request.
+      connection.read_timeout = read_timeout if read_timeout
+
       # Apply SSL, if applicable
       if uri.scheme == 'https'
         # Turn on SSL
         connection.use_ssl = true
 