SimplePie Error - Curl Timeout on Wordpress - wordpress

Question

I'm getting the error WP HTTP Error: cURL error 28: Operation timed out after 1001 milliseconds with 0 bytes received using the fetch_feed() method in my Wordpress Plugin.
This is for trying to fetch a larger RSS feed and I need to increase the Curl Timeout. Not sure why it is set to 1 second instead of 5 also?
The WP Documentation on this is not very detailed WP_Feed_Cache notably that SimplePie_Cache class documentation is not present.
Any help would be appreciated, not sure if I'm able to hook into SimplePie to increase the Curl Timeout. Also, I tried rewriting my own fetch_feed() method with no success below:
public function fetchFeed( $url ) {
if( ! class_exists('\SimplePie', false) ) {
require_once( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/class-simplepie.php' );
}
require_once( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/class-wp-feed-cache.php' );
require_once( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/class-wp-feed-cache-transient.php' );
require_once( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/class-wp-simplepie-file.php' );
require_once( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/class-wp-simplepie-sanitize-kses.php' );
$feed = new \SimplePie();
$feed->set_sanitize_class( 'WP_SimplePie_Sanitize_KSES' );
// We must manually overwrite $feed->sanitize because SimplePie's
// constructor sets it before we have a chance to set the sanitization class
$feed->sanitize = new \WP_SimplePie_Sanitize_KSES();
/* Customize sanitization */
$feed->sanitize->enable_cache = false;
$feed->sanitize->timeout = 60;
$feed->sanitize->useragent = "Custom Testing Feed Reader";
$feed->set_cache_class( 'WP_Feed_Cache' );
$feed->set_file_class( 'WP_SimplePie_File' );
$feed->set_feed_url( $url );
$feed->set_timeout( 30 );
/** This filter is documented in wp-includes/class-wp-feed-cache-transient.php */
$feed->set_cache_duration( apply_filters( 'wp_feed_cache_transient_lifetime', 60, $url ) ); //changing cache time to 60 seconds (instead of 12 hours)
/**
* Fires just before processing the SimplePie feed object.
*
* #since 3.0.0
*
* #param object $feed SimplePie feed object (passed by reference).
* #param mixed $url URL of feed to retrieve. If an array of URLs, the feeds are merged.
*/
do_action_ref_array( 'wp_feed_options', array( &$feed, $url ) );
$feed->init();
// $feed->set_output_encoding( get_option( 'blog_charset' ) );
$feed->set_output_encoding( "UTF-8" ); //set statically to UTF-8
if ( $feed->error() )
return new \WP_Error( 'simplepie-error', $feed->error() );
return $feed;
}

Answer 1

I was able to increase the Curl Timeout by using the following code:
//Set HTTP Request Timeout
add_filter('http_request_args', 'my_http_request_args', 100, 1);
function my_http_request_args( $r ) {
$r['timeout'] = 30;
return $r;
}
//Setting WP HTTP API Timeout
add_action('http_api_curl', 'my_http_api_curl', 100, 1);
function my_http_api_curl( $handle ) {
curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 30);
curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30 );
}
// Setting custom timeout for the HTTP request
add_filter('http_request_timeout', 'my_custom_http_request_timeout', 101 );
function my_custom_http_request_timeout( $timeLimit ) {
return 30;
}