Heads up: Ruby's Net::HTTP silently retries a failing request
Ruby's Net::HTTP library repeats a failing request once Show archive.org snapshot , as long as it deems it idempotent (GET, HEAD etc). Both requests will use the configured timeout. Hence, if both requests time out, Net::HTTP will only return after twice the configured timeout.
This can become an issue if you rely on the timeout to strike precisely.
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