Timeout error when I tried to send transaction

I don’t understanda why, but since few days, I can’t send transaction. When I do web3.eth.sendTransaction(transaction) I’ve this error timeout: timed out.

the transaction looks like this : transaction = {'from': user2, 'to':user1, 'data': web3.toHex("test")} And user1 and user2are defined . Accounts are unlocked and have gas…

Have you got any idea?

[barakman]

For future readers who encounter this problem, one way to resolve it is by changing this:

HTTPProvider('http://137.xxx.xxxx.xxxx:8545')

To this:

HTTPProvider('http://137.xxx.xxxx.xxxx:8545',request_kwargs={'timeout':60})

As the default timeout is 10 (seconds).

[barakman]

@shanefontaine: It involves inter-process communication, so technically speaking, any time-duration is possible, especially when the communication is over HTTP. Evidently, they added the timeout configuration parameter, so there’s gotta be good reason for that, wouldn’t you agree? Practically, the reason I wrote this is because I ran into a sporadic timeout scenario, which I was able to resolve by increasing the timeout. By the way, it’s not about sending a transaction, it’s about receiving a response to it (on the client side, where you configure the timeout).