timeout not work about needle

[tomas]

What URL are you aiming at? So I can replicate the same error. :)

[bitinn]

If I follow this correctly, after needle starts a connection and have received some data, it won't timeout until the file is fully received (besides the 2 minutes timeout on http)? I see no config in request for this neither, curl is the only thing I can think of that offers transfer timeout as an option.

request has a response event that you can listen to and set a manual timeout, I assume needle has something similar so that we can do the same thing?

But either way, Promise.race can wrap the needle request with another timeout that help to approximate a transfer timeout.

[tomas]

Needle's timeout is set when the request is sent, and canceled only when we get a response with headers (no body yet). It's similar to curl's --connect-timeout option. You can always set a timeout for the full operation to complete:

var stream = needle.get('foobar.com/test'),
     timer = setTimeout(function() { stream.request.abort() }, 60 * 1000);

stream.on('end', function() { clearTimeout(timer) });

Does that solve the problem?

[tomas]

Needle already handles open_timeout vs read_timeout. Try them out and let me know if it works (closing this issue, but feel free to reopen if it's not working as expected).