Recently, some new timeout API methods were added to the AVR Wire library (see arduino/ArduinoCore-avr#42), which should be documented. Given there is no repository for the library reference, I'm g ...

FWIW, after upgrading from v2.7.4 Arduino core to v3.0.2 on my ESP8266 WebServer my ESP8266 HTTPClients started getting this very HTTPC_ERROR_READ_TIMEOUT" after some runtime (hours).