Request.SetTimeout (#1415)

* Request.SetTimeout

This functionally works the same as e.g. Client.DoTimeout(), but we can
also use it for Client.DoRedirect(). There is no way as far as I can
tell to set a timeout on a DoRedirect call, so this makes it possible.

* tests

* docs

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/http.go b/http.go
index 4ef3744..4b9e113 100644
--- a/http.go
+++ b/http.go
@@ -2290,3 +2290,11 @@ func round2(n int) int {
 
 	return int(x + 1)
 }
+
+// SetTimeout sets timeout for the request.
+//
+// req.SetTimeout(t); c.Do(&req, &resp) is equivalent to
+// c.DoTimeout(&req, &resp, t)
+func (req *Request) SetTimeout(t time.Duration) {
+	req.timeout = t
+}