Fetch API request timeout?

Question

I have a fetch-api POST request:

fetch(url, {
  method: 'POST',
  body: formData,
  credentials: 'include'
})

I want to know what is the default timeout for this? and how can we set it to a particular value like 3 seconds or indefinite seconds?

Answer 1

Edit 1

As pointed out in comments, the code in the original answer keeps running the timer even after the promise is resolved/rejected.

The code below fixes that issue.

function timeout(ms, promise) {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    const timer = setTimeout(() => {
      reject(new Error('TIMEOUT'))
    }, ms)

    promise
      .then(value => {
        clearTimeout(timer)
        resolve(value)
      })
      .catch(reason => {
        clearTimeout(timer)
        reject(reason)
      })
  })
}

---

Original answer

It doesn't have a specified default; the specification doesn't discuss timeouts at all.

You can implement your own timeout wrapper for promises in general:

// Rough implementation. Untested.
function timeout(ms, promise) {
  return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
    setTimeout(function() {
      reject(new Error("timeout"))
    }, ms)
    promise.then(resolve, reject)
  })
}

timeout(1000, fetch('/hello')).then(function(response) {
  // process response
}).catch(function(error) {
  // might be a timeout error
})

As described in https://github.com/github/fetch/issues/175 Comment by https://github.com/mislav