Added an UI to let the the user configure the timeout

app/MindWork AI Studio/Components/Settings/SettingsPanelApp.razor

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
     <ConfigurationSelect OptionDescription="@T("Color theme")" SelectedValue="@(() => this.SettingsManager.ConfigurationData.App.PreferredTheme)" Data="@ConfigurationSelectDataFactory.GetThemesData()" SelectionUpdate="@(selectedValue => this.SettingsManager.ConfigurationData.App.PreferredTheme = selectedValue)" OptionHelp="@T("Choose the color theme that best suits for you.")"/>
     <ConfigurationOption OptionDescription="@T("Save energy?")" LabelOn="@T("Energy saving is enabled")" LabelOff="@T("Energy saving is disabled")" State="@(() => this.SettingsManager.ConfigurationData.App.IsSavingEnergy)" StateUpdate="@(updatedState => this.SettingsManager.ConfigurationData.App.IsSavingEnergy = updatedState)" OptionHelp="@T("When enabled, streamed content from the AI is updated once every third second. When disabled, streamed content will be updated as soon as it is available.")"/>
     <ConfigurationOption OptionDescription="@T("Enable spellchecking?")" LabelOn="@T("Spellchecking is enabled")" LabelOff="@T("Spellchecking is disabled")" State="@(() => this.SettingsManager.ConfigurationData.App.EnableSpellchecking)" StateUpdate="@(updatedState => this.SettingsManager.ConfigurationData.App.EnableSpellchecking = updatedState)" OptionHelp="@T("When enabled, spellchecking will be active in all input fields. Depending on your operating system, errors may not be visually highlighted, but right-clicking may still offer possible corrections.")"/>
+    <ConfigurationSlider T="int" OptionDescription="@T("Request timeout")" Min="@ExternalHttpClientTimeout.MIN_HTTP_CLIENT_TIMEOUT_SECONDS" Max="@ExternalHttpClientTimeout.MAX_HTTP_CLIENT_TIMEOUT_SECONDS" Step="60" Unit="@T("seconds")" Value="@(() => this.SettingsManager.ConfigurationData.App.HttpClientTimeoutSeconds)" ValueUpdate="@(updatedValue => this.SettingsManager.ConfigurationData.App.HttpClientTimeoutSeconds = updatedValue)" OptionHelp="@T("How long AI Studio waits for external HTTP requests, such as AI providers, embeddings, transcription, ERI data sources, and enterprise configuration downloads.")" IsLocked="() => ManagedConfiguration.TryGet(x => x.App, x => x.HttpClientTimeoutSeconds, out var meta) && meta.IsLocked"/>
     <ConfigurationSelect OptionDescription="@T("Check for updates")" SelectedValue="@(() => this.SettingsManager.ConfigurationData.App.UpdateInterval)" Data="@ConfigurationSelectDataFactory.GetUpdateIntervalData()" SelectionUpdate="@(selectedValue => this.SettingsManager.ConfigurationData.App.UpdateInterval = selectedValue)" OptionHelp="@T("How often should we check for app updates?")" IsLocked="() => ManagedConfiguration.TryGet(x => x.App, x => x.UpdateInterval, out var meta) && meta.IsLocked"/>
     <ConfigurationSelect OptionDescription="@T("Update installation method")" SelectedValue="@(() => this.SettingsManager.ConfigurationData.App.UpdateInstallation)" Data="@ConfigurationSelectDataFactory.GetUpdateBehaviourData()" SelectionUpdate="@(selectedValue => this.SettingsManager.ConfigurationData.App.UpdateInstallation = selectedValue)" OptionHelp="@T("Should updates be installed automatically or manually?")" IsLocked="() => ManagedConfiguration.TryGet(x => x.App, x => x.UpdateInstallation, out var meta) && meta.IsLocked"/>
     <ConfigurationSelect OptionDescription="@T("Navigation bar behavior")" SelectedValue="@(() => this.SettingsManager.ConfigurationData.App.NavigationBehavior)" Data="@ConfigurationSelectDataFactory.GetNavBehaviorData()" SelectionUpdate="@(selectedValue => this.SettingsManager.ConfigurationData.App.NavigationBehavior = selectedValue)" OptionHelp="@T("Select the desired behavior for the navigation bar.")"/>

app/MindWork AI Studio/Provider/BaseProvider.cs

@@ -406,6 +406,18 @@ public abstract class BaseProvider : IProvider, ISecretId
         //
         while (true)
         {
+            try
+            {
+                if(streamReader.EndOfStream)
+                    break;
+            }
+            catch (Exception e)
+            {
+                await MessageBus.INSTANCE.SendError(new(Icons.Material.Filled.Stream, string.Format(TB("Tried to stream the LLM provider '{0}' answer. There were some problems with the stream. The message is: '{1}'"), this.InstanceName, e.Message)));
+                this.logger.LogWarning($"Failed to read the end-of-stream state from {providerName} '{this.InstanceName}': {e.Message}");
+                break;
+            }
+
             // Check if the token is canceled:
             if (token.IsCancellationRequested)
             {
@@ -588,6 +600,18 @@ public abstract class BaseProvider : IProvider, ISecretId
         //
         while (true)
         {
+            try
+            {
+                if(streamReader.EndOfStream)
+                    break;
+            }
+            catch (Exception e)
+            {
+                await MessageBus.INSTANCE.SendError(new(Icons.Material.Filled.Stream, string.Format(TB("Tried to stream the LLM provider '{0}' answer. There were some problems with the stream. The message is: '{1}'"), this.InstanceName, e.Message)));
+                this.logger.LogWarning($"Failed to read the end-of-stream state from {providerName} '{this.InstanceName}': {e.Message}");
+                break;
+            }
+
             // Check if the token is canceled:
             if (token.IsCancellationRequested)
             {

app/MindWork AI Studio/Tools/ExternalHttpClientTimeout.cs

@@ -8,8 +8,12 @@ namespace AIStudio.Tools;
 /// </summary>
 public static class ExternalHttpClientTimeout
 {
+    public const int MIN_HTTP_CLIENT_TIMEOUT_SECONDS = 120;
+    public const int MAX_HTTP_CLIENT_TIMEOUT_SECONDS = 3600;
     public const int DEFAULT_HTTP_CLIENT_TIMEOUT_SECONDS = 3600;
 
+    private static readonly Lazy<SettingsManager> SETTINGS_MANAGER = new(() => Program.SERVICE_PROVIDER.GetRequiredService<SettingsManager>());
+
     public static HttpClient CreateHttpClient(Uri? baseAddress = null)
     {
         var httpClient = new HttpClient();
@@ -60,11 +64,11 @@ public static class ExternalHttpClientTimeout
     
     private static TimeSpan GetTimeout()
     {
-        var settingsManager = Program.SERVICE_PROVIDER.GetRequiredService<SettingsManager>();
+        var seconds = SETTINGS_MANAGER.Value.ConfigurationData.App.HttpClientTimeoutSeconds;
-        var seconds = settingsManager.ConfigurationData.App.HttpClientTimeoutSeconds;
         if (seconds <= 0)
             seconds = DEFAULT_HTTP_CLIENT_TIMEOUT_SECONDS;
 
+        seconds = Math.Clamp(seconds, MIN_HTTP_CLIENT_TIMEOUT_SECONDS, MAX_HTTP_CLIENT_TIMEOUT_SECONDS);
         return TimeSpan.FromSeconds(seconds);
     }