[question] cancelled context is ignored?

[ivanjaros]

I have dialer:

d := websocket.Dialer{
		ReadBufferSize:    1024 * 4,
		WriteBufferSize:   1024 * 4,
		EnableCompression: false,
}

and I am using d.DialContext() to dial the server. So far it looks like cancelling the context will not close the connection, so my client "hangs" when the app is requested to be stopped by context cancellation.

Is this a bug or expected behavior or I might have a bug elsewhere?

If the context expires before the connection is complete, an error is returned. Once successfully connected, any expiration of the context will not affect the connection.

[ivanjaros]

If the context expires before the connection is complete, an error is returned. Once successfully connected, any expiration of the context will not affect the connection.

i don't use timeout but cancel function. so if what you say is true how am i supposed to close the connection when reading is blocking so i cannot use select to listen for cancel channel? this essentially makes this entire library useless.

this essentially makes this entire library useless.

My previous comment is a direct quote from the standard net package dialer.DialContext documentation. Are network connections in the standard library also useless?