The following setup uses a select statement to either wait for a response error or timeout after a given duration.
The httptest.Server is setup to force the timeout by sleeping (1 sec) for greater than the timeout (1 millisec). But the timeout case isn't being hit at all, why? what is wrong with the setup? https://play.golang.org/p/jX_nZPV4vVY package main import ( "fmt" "time" "net/http" "net/http/httptest" "errors" ) func main() { ts := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { time.Sleep(1 * time.Second) w.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK) })) defer ts.Close() req, _ := http.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, ts.URL, nil) f := func(r *http.Request) error { _, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(r) return err } ch := make(chan error, 1) timeout := 1 * time.Millisecond select { case ch <-f(req): case <-time.After(timeout): ch <- errors.New("timeout") } err:= <-ch close(ch) fmt.Println(err) // outputs <nil>, not timeout // Output: // timeout } -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
