reflected the recent standard changes in the doc

config.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 useragent "tii/current"
 proxyhost ""
 proxyport "0"
+net_timeout 10000
 tiix_font "Fira Code"
 tiix_fontsize "12"
 tiix_fgcolor "#eee"

ii-doc.txt

@@ -61,6 +61,11 @@ Response: newline-separated message ID list
 When a new message is posted to the echo, it gets appended to the end of the
 corresponding message ID list for this echo.
 
+The message order in an echo does not always match the timestamp ordering;
+it is fully up to the client on how to sort the messages internally. The
+messages are only guaranteed to be saved by the server in the order they
+arrive onto the server.
+
 - Listing messages in any amount of echos -
 
 Request: GET /u/e/echo.1.name/echo.2.name/...
@@ -77,7 +82,10 @@ msgid2fromecho2
 ...
 
 In case of limited request, the offset can be negative. E.g. -10:10 means
-requesting last 10 messages from the index.
+requesting last 10 messages from the index. If the offset:limit pair is not
+valid for a particular echo, all message IDs from this echo are returned.
+
+The same message ID ordering rule as for /e applies to /u/e as well. 
 
 - Fetching a single message by its ID -
 
@@ -90,6 +98,7 @@ Request: GET /u/m/msgid1/msgid2/...
 Response: newline-separated list of msgid:base64_msgtext
 
 Here, base64_msgtext is a Base64-encoded Node-to-Point Message (see below).
+The standardized ID count limit is at most 40 messages per bundle.
 
 - Posting a message (via POST) -
 
@@ -171,14 +180,4 @@ This algorithm must be implemented by every station to generate message IDs:
 4. Replace all occurrences of + or - with A, and / or _ with z.
 5. The result of these operations is your ii message ID.
 
-Implementation notes
---------------------
-* Most HTTP servers are configured to reject long GET lines, so tii passes a
-  limited amount of message IDs to the /u/m endpoints. This behaviour can be
-  configured in the stations.txt file.
-* The message order in an echo does not always match the timestamp ordering;
-  it is fully up to the client on how to sort the messages internally. The
-  messages are only guaranteed to be saved by the server in the order they
-  arrive onto the server.
-
 --- Luxferre ---

tiifetch.tcl

@@ -78,8 +78,7 @@ proc url2dict {inputurl} {
 }
 
 proc reqresp {host port reqline is_tls encoding} {
-  global sock_response
-  set sock_net_timeout 5000
+  global sock_response net_timeout
   set sock 0
   if {$is_tls eq 1} {
     catch {set sock [::tls::socket -autoservername true -async $host $port]}
@@ -109,7 +108,7 @@ proc reqresp {host port reqline is_tls encoding} {
     }
     set rcv_end_$sock 0
   }
-  after $sock_net_timeout "global rcv_end_$sock; set rcv_end_$sock 1"
+  after $net_timeout "global rcv_end_$sock; set rcv_end_$sock 1"
   vwait rcv_end_$sock
   catch {close $sock}
   unset -nocomplain rcv_end_$sock
@@ -118,6 +117,7 @@ proc reqresp {host port reqline is_tls encoding} {
 
 # file download helper
 proc getfile {url} {
+  global net_timeout
   set url [regsub -all {([^:])//} $url {\1/}]
   set urlparts [url2dict $url]
   set scheme [dict get $urlparts scheme]
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ proc getfile {url} {
     https - http {
       set hs ""
       while {$hs eq ""} {
-        set hs [::http::geturl $url -binary 1 -keepalive 0 -timeout 10000]
+        set hs [::http::geturl $url -binary 1 -keepalive 0 -timeout $net_timeout]
       }
       if {[::http::ncode $hs] eq "200"} {
         return [::http::data $hs]
@@ -369,6 +369,7 @@ set localdb [file join $appdir "tii.db"]
 
 # populate general HTTP configuration 
 set cfgfile [file join $appdir "config.txt"]
+set net_timeout 5000
 if {[file exists $cfgfile]} {
   set cfg [readfile $cfgfile]
   if {[dict exists $cfg useragent]} {
@@ -380,6 +381,9 @@ if {[file exists $cfgfile]} {
   if {[dict exists $cfg proxyport]} {
     ::http::config -proxyport [dict get $cfg proxyport] 
   }
+  if {[dict exists $cfg net_timeout]} {
+    set net_timeout [dict get $cfg net_timeout]
+  }
 }
 
 if {$argc > 0} {

tiix.tcl

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ set tiix_linkcolor blue
 set useragent ""
 set proxyhost ""
 set proxyport 0
+set net_timeout 5000
 set cfgfile [file join $appdir "config.txt"]
 if {[file exists $cfgfile]} {
   set cfg [readfile $cfgfile]
@@ -44,6 +45,9 @@ if {[file exists $cfgfile]} {
     set proxyport [dict get $cfg proxyport] 
     ::http::config -proxyport $proxyport
   }
+  if {[dict exists $cfg net_timeout]} {
+    set net_timeout [dict get $cfg net_timeout]
+  }
   if {[dict exists $cfg tiix_font]} {
     set tiix_font [dict get $cfg tiix_font]
   }