Long Response Time or Timeouts for localhost server

[aleksandr-leontev]

Hi,
By some reason this data by this url generates for me within 8-10 minutes on localhost:
LinkThumbnailer.generate('https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-top-automation-tools-that-entrepreneurs-use')

But on staging or production servers it takes several seconds.
Do you know the reason or it is some bug?
Or which timeouts I can limit for localhost?

[gottfrois]

It looks like it's stuck in the loop which follows URL redirections. Doing a simple curl request on the original URL shows a redirection:

$ curl -iL https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-top-automation-tools-that-entrepreneurs-use
...
location: https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-top-automation-tools-that-entrepreneurs-use-things-used-for-organizing-life-contacts-deals-finding-information-networking-and-getting-things-accomplished
...

The gem will try to follow redirections and raise an exception if there were too many redirections. It's controllable using the :redirect_limit option.

However here it doesn't help for some reason, not obvious to me at the moment.
Using the definitive URL does resolve in matter of a few seconds:

LinkThumbnailer.generate('https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-top-automation-tools-that-entrepreneurs-use-things-used-for-organizing-life-contacts-deals-finding-information-networking-and-getting-things-accomplished')