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VisualEditor: Don't wait indefinitely for gadget servers that are not responding
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When a user has installed a gadget that relies on data from an external server, VisualEditor appears to wait indefinitely for that server to respond. Normally this is OK, but when that server is down VE will apparently wait forever (or at least longer than the 5 minutes I was prepared to wait) for a response.

The source editor appears to give up after a wile (2 minutes?), and loads as if the gadget was not called. VE should exhibit this behaviour too.

Tested with the HAPPI gadget ([[User:EpochFail/HAPPI]]). As of 21:52 UTC 05 August 2013 that gadget depends on a server at wikipedia.grouplens.org that is not responding

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 1:54 AM
• bzimport added a project: VisualEditor.
• bzimport set Reference to bz52563.
Thryduulf created this task.Aug 5 2013, 9:53 PM
Jdforrester-WMF added a comment.Jan 22 2014, 7:30 PM

Surely this is the responsibility of the gadget's author?

Also, not sure if the wikitext editor executes poorly-responding gadgets, or it's just apparent happenstance. Either way, 120 seconds is about an order of magnitude too high.

Sorry for very slow triage.

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