Set and handle http timeouts in express / node.js

Question

There's very little documentation and reasoning on how to handle and set http timeouts in express.

I think they can be set via:

req.connection.setTimeout(600000);

Update: I got this working to set it, confirmed.

But after this limit, the server comes back with "No data received". I tried this module express-timeout and it didn't work.

Ideas?

Dan Kohn · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-05 01:08:44Z

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What behavior do you want when timeout is exceeded?

Are you sure you don't want something like sockets.io that would enable connections to be kept alive and reinitiated as needed?

answered Dec 5, 2013 at 1:08

Dan Kohn

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