Add a warning that the socket-timeout does not apply to operations done by TLS libraries

[privoxy.git] / doc / source / p-config.sgml

diff --git a/doc/source/p-config.sgml b/doc/source/p-config.sgml
index 0f2696f..bb93a80 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/source/p-config.sgml
+++ b/doc/source/p-config.sgml
@@ -3098,6 +3098,14 @@ forward   /.*\.(exe|com|dll|zip)$    antivir.example.com:8010
     If you aren't using an occasionally slow proxy like Tor, reducing
     it to a few seconds should be fine.
    </para>
+   <warning>
+    <para>
+     When a TLS library is being used to read or write data from a socket with
+     <literal><ulink url="actions-file.html#HTTPS-INSPECTION">https-inspection</ulink></literal>
+     enabled the socket-timeout currently isn't applied and the timeout
+     used depends on the library (which may not even use a timeout).
+    </para>
+   </warning>
   </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>