doc, rpc: -rpcclienttimeout help string is wrong #17117

1. 
   hebasto commented at 1:07 PM on October 12, 2019: member

   $ bitcoin-cli --help   
   Bitcoin Core RPC client version v0.19.0rc1
   ...
     -rpcclienttimeout=<n>
          Timeout in seconds during HTTP requests, or 0 for no timeout. (default:
          900)
   

   The "0 for no timeout" part, added in #9903, is wrong:

   $ time bitcoin-cli -rpcclienttimeout=0 gettxoutsetinfo
   error: Could not connect to the server 127.0.0.1:8332 (error code 0 - "timeout reached")
   
   Make sure the bitcoind server is running and that you are connecting to the correct RPC port.
   
   real	0m51.279s
   user	0m0.005s
   sys	0m0.019s
   

   Both 0.18.0 and 0.19.0rc1 are affected.

2. hebasto added the label Bug on Oct 12, 2019
3. MarcoFalke added this to the milestone 0.19.0 on Oct 12, 2019
4. fanquake added the label Docs on Oct 12, 2019
5. 
   MarcoFalke commented at 12:36 PM on October 14, 2019: member

   According to #9903 (comment) it used to work at some point

6. laanwj closed this on Oct 16, 2019

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7. 
   cryptohazard commented at 12:22 PM on January 29, 2020: none

   I just noticed on v0.19.0.1 that using: rpcclienttimeout=0 I get in the logs: Ignoring unknown configuration value rpcclienttimeout

8. 
   hebasto commented at 12:36 PM on January 29, 2020: member

   @cryptohazard

   I just noticed on v0.19.0.1 that using: rpcclienttimeout=0 I get in the logs: Ignoring unknown configuration value rpcclienttimeout

   Please make sure that you provide the rpcclienttimeout option to the bitcoin-cli binary, not to bitcoind or bitcoin-qt.

9. 
   cryptohazard commented at 12:37 PM on January 29, 2020: none

   Understood! it was in the bitcoin.conf

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