joernchen/metasploit-framework — comment on commit 197eb16f72adfe5f2b764496ed070b0d5a90a22b
File: modules/exploits/multi/http/gitorious_graph.rb line 64
By wchen-r7:

The timeout argument is optional for both send_request_cgi() and send_request_raw(). So if you don't need it, you don't have to supply one at all.