Add request handling timeout #2500
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Describe the background of your feature request
If/when something goes wrong, i would like a way to limit the maximum duration of a request.
We saw recently with #2466 that when the code internally hit a deadlock, the request just hung forever. (it could also be a downstream system misbehaving.)
I would rather it failed loudly, than just hanging, and eating up system resources.
Describe your idea
Add a new configuration option for request timeout, and fail the request, if it takes longer than that.
The net/http TimeoutHandler makes this easy to implement, as shown here:
https://ieftimov.com/posts/make-resilient-golang-net-http-servers-using-timeouts-deadlines-context-cancellation/#handler-timeout
Are there any workarounds or alternatives?
Not that i know of
Version
0.16.3
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