Shopify / Shopify/toxiproxy

Support for connection timed out toxic

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Go
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Description

It would be nice to add a toxic that can simulate a connection timed out. Such feature can be really useful for testing out client connection retry configurations.

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Research direction

No files or tests are named in the issue. Start by reviewing the existing toxic implementations and their tests, then determine how a connection-timeout toxic should behave and how clients can verify retry handling; done means the toxic reliably simulates a connection timeout for those tests.

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Assessment

Tech stack
go
Domain
networking, testing
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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