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ECO-NET-NET-005

Name: Missing timeouts

Category: NET

Family: NET

Primary layer: network

System layers: network

Description

Missing timeouts remove a critical reliability boundary for network calls.

Impact

  • confidence: 0.85
  • notes: High propagation during partial outages.
  • type: reliability

Detection

  • languages:
  • python
  • javascript
  • java
  • infra
  • method: hybrid

Remediation

  • guidance: Set explicit connect/read timeouts; standardize defaults.
  • tradeoffs: Endpoint tuning required.

Pattern examples

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Remediation examples

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