Hacktoberfest 2026: the issues maintainers tagged for October, open and beginner-friendly. Browse Hacktoberfest issues

Polling stops if the server takes more than 20 seconds to respond

Open
#154 2 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
api

Research direction

Start by tracing the TypeScript client’s polling flow and its GET request handling. Reproduce the issue with a response delayed beyond 20 seconds, then verify that polling continues after the delayed request completes instead of stopping.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

approved bug

WebChat/DirectLineJs stops polling if any of the GET requests takes over 20 seconds.

Dominant language
TypeScript
Stars
199
Forks
133
No merged PRs in 30d

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

More from microsoft/BotFramework-DirectLineJS

All issues in microsoft/BotFramework-DirectLineJS

Similar issues

More TypeScript issues

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.