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Hi, I created a patch for it, would it be possible to have it included??

this is the effect... having a netcat in listening...


dyn-86-client:apachebench-standalone-read-only zeph$ time ./ab -s 2 
'http://localhost:9000/'
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision$>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking localhost (be patient)...apr_poll: The timeout specified has 
expired (70007)

real    0m2.006s
user    0m0.001s
sys 0m0.003s


dyn-86-client:apachebench-standalone-read-only zeph$ time ./ab -s 70 
'http://localhost:9000/'
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision$>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking localhost (be patient)...apr_poll: The timeout specified has 
expired (70007)

real    1m10.005s
user    0m0.001s
sys 0m0.004s

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I attached a patch that allows such a behaviour

without this, it is basically impossible to test webservices that might take 
for more that 30 secs per request, especially under high load...