Koa - cannot increase default request timeout

Question

I need help increasing the 2 min default request timeout in a Koa server. I have a long task operation that is taking a few minutes. When it is finished I'm sending a response back. The problem is that the connection is automatically closed after a timeout of 2 min which is node js default.

I tried everything in google. tried using all kind of third party npm modules.

tried ctx.request.socket.setTimeout(0)

I am out of ideas and need help.

I am executing my requests to the server using postmen with infinite timeout.

Update - This is a code snipped of something im trying to do:

const Koa = require('koa')
const app = new Koa()
const PORT = 7555
const server = app.listen(PORT)

app.use(async (ctx, next) => {
    ctx.req.setTimeout(0);
    await next();
});


app.use(async (ctx, next) => {
    const wait = async () => {
        return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
            setTimeout(() => {
                resolve()
            }, 1000 * 60 * 5)

        })
    }
    await wait()
    console.log("settimeout finished", new Date())
    ctx.response.body = { success: "true", date: new Date() }
})

Answer 1

I tested this one ... worked fine:

const Koa = require('koa')
const app = new Koa()
const PORT = 7555
const server = app.listen(PORT);

server.setTimeout(0); // <-- this should do the trick ...

app.use(async (ctx, next) => {
    console.log("request started", new Date())
    const wait = async () => {
        return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
            setTimeout(() => {
                resolve()
            }, 1000 * 60 * 5)

        })
    }
    await wait()
    console.log("settimeout finished", new Date())
    ctx.response.body = { success: "true", date: new Date() }
})

Be sure that - if apache or nginx is involved in your production system to also modify their configurations (here I increased it to 500 seconds).

For NGINX (proxy)

vim /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

Add following in http{..} section

(see http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#proxy_read_timeout)

http {
    #...
        proxy_read_timeout 500s;
        proxy_send_timeout 500s;
    #...
}

For Apache

vim /etc/apache2/apache2.conf:

Search for TimeOut

# ...
TimeOut 500
# ...