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'timeout' option differs from Node.js

See original GitHub issue

@connor4312’s PR https://github.com/jhiesey/stream-http/pull/55 added a ‘timeout’ option, but it’s behavior differs from the Node.js behavior.

In Node.js the connection is not closed when the timeout occurs, only a ‘timeout’ event is fired. However, setting the xhr.timeout property actually does kill the connection.

xhr.timeout: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequest/timeout request.setTimeout: https://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_request_settimeout_timeout_callback

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:6 (5 by maintainers)

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ferosscommented, Jan 15, 2017

Most users probably want the connection killed after a timeout occurs. No idea why the Node.js API doesn’t do that. Still, the point of this package is to match the Node.js API and any divergence will just introduce confusion.

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jhieseycommented, Jan 15, 2018

Since it isn’t really possible to match node’s behavior properly in the browser, I’m just going to rename the broken timeout option to requestTimeout.

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