Setting socket timeout on golang client

OpenSearch Client Libraries
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I was recently working with a customer who uses the Go client to connect to OpenSearch and they saw a timeout that propagated back to their users when a node got replaced.

From my experience with the Java client, I thought, “Oh, that’s easy – the client kept a stale connection to the old node in its pool and timed out waiting for a response on the next call. Just set your socket timeout closer to your typical upper bound latency and retry on socket timeout.”

I don’t know how to do that with the Go client, though.

Does anyone with experience on opensearch-go have any guidance on setting the socket timeout to fail fast (and ideally retry on a fresh connection) when the server side of the connection goes down?

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Timeout settings are explained here: opensearch-go/opensearchtransport/doc.go at main · opensearch-project/opensearch-go · GitHub

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So, to answer my question, the linked doc.go says:

The default HTTP transport of the client is http.Transport; use the Transport option to customize it;

Reading the docs for http.Transport, I see:

	// ResponseHeaderTimeout, if non-zero, specifies the amount of
	// time to wait for a server's response headers after fully
	// writing the request (including its body, if any). This
	// time does not include the time to read the response body.
	ResponseHeaderTimeout time.Duration

So, I think that’s the setting that needs to be lowered to avoid timing out on stale connections.