What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Provoke a CouchDB timeout error: https://gist.github.com/wickedgrey/d2c87e6ee1e7c695abae (Note: I have no idea how to do this consistently; see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-2218 ). 2. Try to be reading a view when provoking the error: https://gist.github.com/geordanr/30458322a74d3c753ab9

I don't have the actual HTTP request / response data.

I would like to have the exception convey more information about what exactly went wrong (ie. what the HTTP status code was, the raw bytes received, etc.) rather than getting something coming from inside simplejson.

I guess we could start by wrapping the decode in a try-catch and raising another exception with better data (e.g. HTTP headers and the data flowing into the decode)?

This issue has been migrated to GitHub. Please continue discussion here:

https://github.com/djc/couchdb-python/issues/233