Timing Out HTTP Connections
Explore how to implement HTTP connection timeouts in Go using the SetDeadline function. Understand how to apply deadlines to network reads and writes effectively on both client and server sides. This lesson guides you through example code and practical steps to handle slow or unresponsive HTTP connections.
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This lesson presents techniques for timing out HTTP connections that take too long to finish and work either on the server or the client side.
Using SetDeadline()
The SetDeadline() function is used by net to set the read and write deadlines of network connections. Due to the way the SetDeadline() function works, we need to call ...