How to get a custom made response on a request timed out

Question

I'm not able to get my custom 503 response when a request is timed out. I am using the $http service and the timeout config is a promise. This is my plunker.

Answer 1

When you add a promise to the $http object, if it resolves before the request is able to resolve, the response is ABORTED which literally has:

• Status of "0"
• No data
• No status text

There is no 503 response reported "from the server" (from your interceptor) because the request was canceled prior to resolution.

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