diaspora/diaspora — Issue #2195: oembed causes posting to freeze when provider unavailable 
Author: rekado
Created: 2011-10-16 17:48:55+00:00
State: open

In China youtube is blocked. So whenever someone on a pod in China posts a link to a youtube video, requesting the embed code from the service provider will fail. Currently, there is no timeout, so the posting is never aborted. Stopping the server with SIGTERM fails in this case. There probably should be a timeout; alternatively, pod owners should be able to set an option in the configuration file to disable certain oembed providers.