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net/http: document that cancelling a request unblocks reads on the response body #26947

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nhooyr opened this issue Aug 12, 2018 · 3 comments
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net/http: document that cancelling a request unblocks reads on the response body #26947

nhooyr opened this issue Aug 12, 2018 · 3 comments
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@nhooyr nhooyr commented Aug 12, 2018

If you create a *http.Request, set a cancellable context on it, do the request and then begin reading the body, if you cancel the original context on the request, the read on the body will unblock. This is not documented anywhere afaik but is extremely useful behaviour.
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@nhooyr nhooyr commented Aug 12, 2018

Related #26941
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@meirf meirf commented Aug 12, 2018 •
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@nhooyr do you think this a dup of #26101? any interest in uploading a change for this/that issue?
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@nhooyr nhooyr commented Aug 13, 2018 •
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@meirf Yup, this is a dup of #26101. Thanks.

I will try and get in a CL for it.
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