Timeouts in HTTP requests

check_expire

@@ -43,10 +43,10 @@ domain = None
 critical_t = datetime.timedelta(days=2)
 warning_t = datetime.timedelta(days=7)
 unixtime = False
-# TODO implement timeout for HTTPS requests. -t option. Does Requests allow it?
+timeout = 20 # Seconds
 
 def usage(msg=None):
-    print("Usage: %s -H domain-name [-c critical -w warning -u]" % sys.argv[0], end="")
+    print("Usage: %s -H domain-name [-c critical -w warning -u -t timeout]" % sys.argv[0], end="")
     if msg is not None and msg != "":
         print(" (%s)" % msg)
     else:
@@ -73,6 +73,13 @@ def warning(msg=None):
     details()
     sys.exit(STATE_WARNING)
 
+def unknown(msg=None):
+    if msg is None:
+        msg = "Unknown"
+    print("%s UNKNOWN: %s" % (domain, msg), end="")
+    details()
+    sys.exit(STATE_UNKNOWN)
+
 def ok(msg=None):
     if msg is None:
         msg = "Unknown message but everything is OK"
@@ -81,8 +88,10 @@ def ok(msg=None):
     sys.exit(STATE_OK)
 
 try:
-    optlist, args = getopt.getopt (sys.argv[1:], "c:hH:uvVw:",
-                                   ["critical=", "expiration", "help", "unixtime", "verbose", "version", "warning="])
+    optlist, args = getopt.getopt (sys.argv[1:], "c:hH:t:uvVw:",
+                                   ["critical=", "expiration", "help",
+                                    "timeout=", "unixtime", "verbose",
+                                    "version", "warning="])
     for option, value in optlist:
         if option == "--critical" or option == "-c":
             critical_t = datetime.timedelta(days=int(value))
@@ -91,6 +100,10 @@ try:
             sys.exit(STATE_OK)
         elif option == "--hostname" or option == "-H":
             domain = value
+        elif option == "--timeout" or option == "-t":
+            timeout = int(value) 
+        elif option == "--unixtime" or option == "-u":
+            unixtime = True
         elif option == "--verbose" or option == "-v":
             verbose = True
         elif option == "--version" or option == "-V":
@@ -98,8 +111,6 @@ try:
             sys.exit(STATE_OK)
         elif option == "--warning" or option == "-w":
             warning_t = datetime.timedelta(days=int(value))
-        elif option == "--unixtime" or option == "-u":
-            unixtime = True
         else:
             # Should never occur, it is trapped by getopt
             print("Unknown option %s" % option)
@@ -113,13 +124,19 @@ if len(args) != 0:
 if domain is None:
     usage("-H is mandatory")
     sys.exit(STATE_UNKNOWN)
+try:
     database = ianardap.IanaRDAPDatabase()
+except Exception as e:
+    unknown("Exception when retrieving the IANA database: \"%s\"" % e)
 server = database.find(domain)
 if server is None:
-    error("No RDAP server found for %s" % domain)
+    unknown("No RDAP server found for %s" % domain)
 if server.endswith("/"):
     server = server[:-1] # Donuts RDAP server balks when there are two slashes and reply 404
-response = requests.get("%s/domain/%s" % (server, domain))
+try:
+    response = requests.get("%s/domain/%s" % (server, domain), timeout=timeout)
+except requests.exceptions.Timeout:
+    unknown("Timeout when trying to reach %s" % server)    
 if response.status_code != 200:
     error("Invalid RDAP return code: %s" % response.status_code)
 rdap = json.loads(response.content)
@@ -136,8 +153,7 @@ for event in rdap["events"]:
                     dt = re.sub(r"\+([0-9]{2}):([0-9]{2})$", r"+\1\2",  event["eventDate"])
                     expiration = datetime.datetime.strptime(dt, RFC3339TZ)
                 else:
-                    print("No recognized format for datetime \"%s\"" % event["eventDate"])
-                    sys.exit(STATE_UNKNOWN)
+                    unknown("No recognized format for datetime \"%s\"" % event["eventDate"])
         now = datetime.datetime.now(tz=UTCINFO)
         if unixtime == True:
             print(int(expiration.strftime("%s")))

ianardap.py

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import fcntl
 IANABASE = "https://data.iana.org/rdap/dns.json"
 CACHE = os.environ["HOME"] + "/.ianardapcache.json" 
 MAXAGE = 24 # Hours
+IANATIMEOUT = 10
 
 class IanaRDAPDatabase():
 
@@ -36,7 +37,7 @@ class IanaRDAPDatabase():
             self.unlock()
         else:
             self.unlock()
-            response = requests.get(IANABASE)
+            response = requests.get(IANABASE, timeout=IANATIMEOUT)
             if response.status_code != 200:
                 raise Exception("Invalid HTTPS return code when trying to get %s: %s" % (IANABASE, response.status_code))
             content = response.content

tests.yaml

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ tests:
       args:
           - '-H'
           - 'bie.re'
-      retcode: 2
+      retcode: 3
       partstdout: 'No RDAP server'
 
     # 2021-07-05: no expiration in RDAP for this TLD (but there is one
@@ -45,6 +45,16 @@ tests:
       retcode: 2
       partstdout: 'No expiration found'
 
+    # Far away and slow, timeout is expected
+    - exe: './check_expire'
+      args:
+          - '-t'
+          - '1'
+          - '-H'
+          - 'nic.ar'
+      retcode: 3
+      partstdout: 'Timeout'
+
     - exe: './check_expire'
       args:
           - '-H'