How to customize http.Client or http.Transport in Go to retry after timeout?

Note that the Timeout field of http.Client is more or less obsolete. Best practice now is to use http.Request.Context() for timeouts. ? Flimzy

Thanks for the inspiration from @Flimzy! I attempted to use context for timeout control instead of http.Client way. Here's the code:

func (ct *CustomTransport) RoundTrip(req *http.Request) (resp *http.Response, err error) {
    req.Header.Set("Secret", "Blah blah blah")
    // ... other customizations for each request

    for i := 1; i <= 5; i++ {
        ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 10*time.Second)
        defer cancel()
        //reqT := req.WithContext(ctx)
        resp, err = ct.RoundTripper.RoundTrip(req.WithContext(ctx))
        if errors.Is(err, context.DeadlineExceeded) {
            log.Warnf("#%d got timeout will retry - %v", i, err)
            //time.Sleep(time.Duration(100*i) * time.Millisecond)
            continue
        } else {
            break
        }
    }

As per the log, it works (note the timestamp in the logs, it actually retried):

2020-07-16T00:06:12.788+0800    DEBUG   begin to get "https://httpbin.org/delay/10"
2020-07-16T00:06:20.794+0800    WARN    #1 got timeout will retry - context deadline exceeded
2020-07-16T00:06:28.794+0800    WARN    #2 got timeout will retry - context deadline exceeded
2020-07-16T00:06:36.799+0800    WARN    #3 got timeout will retry - context deadline exceeded
2020-07-16T00:06:44.803+0800    WARN    #4 got timeout will retry - context deadline exceeded
2020-07-16T00:06:52.809+0800    WARN    #5 got timeout will retry - context deadline exceeded
2020-07-16T00:06:52.809+0800    DEBUG   got final result: context deadline exceeded
2020-07-16T00:06:52.809+0800    WARN    client got error: Get "https://httpbin.org/delay/10": context deadline exceeded
2020-07-16T00:06:52.809+0800    DEBUG   end to get "https://httpbin.org/delay/10", time cost: 40.019334668s