From 2f3ceefd305c8998ae3772726190aca14bbe6521 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Taka <taka@vm-linux-dev>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 04:38:08 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Shortened the nginx proxy timeouts.

---
 web/docker/nginx-default.conf | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/web/docker/nginx-default.conf b/web/docker/nginx-default.conf
index 2594859..41d3b74 100644
--- a/web/docker/nginx-default.conf
+++ b/web/docker/nginx-default.conf
@@ -12,7 +12,13 @@ server {
     location /api {
         proxy_pass http://flask:5000 ;
         rewrite ^/api/(.*) /$1 break ;
+        # NOTE: The frontend and backend containers will be running on the same host. If we can't connect
+        # within a few seconds, something's wrong and there's nothing to be gained by having longer timeouts.
+        proxy_connect_timeout 10 ;
+        proxy_read_timeout 10 ;
+        proxy_send_timeout 10 ;
     }
+
     location /user {
         proxy_pass http://flask:5000 ;
         rewrite ^/user/(.*) /user-files/$1 break ;