Reincorporates the timeouthandler into the updates handler

main.go

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"log"
 	"net/http"
 	"strings"
+	"time"
 )
 
 type funcType func() map[string]string
@@ -28,16 +29,16 @@ func main() {
 
 func handler(m *mux.Router) http.HandlerFunc {
 	return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		driver := strings.ReplaceAll(r.URL.Path, "/", "")
+		service := r.URL.Query().Get("service")
+		incompatibleError := fmt.Sprintf("%s is not a compatible driver with service: %s", driver, service)
 		defer func() {
-			driver := strings.ReplaceAll(r.URL.Path, "/", "")
-			service := r.URL.Query().Get("service")
-			incompatibleError := fmt.Sprintf("%s is not a compatible driver with service: %s", driver, service)
 			if err := recover(); err != nil {
 				http.Error(w, incompatibleError, http.StatusInternalServerError)
 			}
 		}()
-		handler := http.Handler(m)
-		handler.ServeHTTP(w, r)
+		timeoutHandler := http.TimeoutHandler(m, 3*time.Second, incompatibleError)
+		timeoutHandler.ServeHTTP(w, r)
 	}
 }
 

redis.go

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ func redisHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	service := r.URL.Query().Get("service")
 	redisRoute := strings.ReplaceAll(service, "/", "")
 	redisConnectionStr := fmt.Sprintf("%s:6379", redisRoute)
+	log.Print(fmt.Sprintf("Using %s as the connstring", redisConnectionStr))
 	fmt.Fprintf(w, redisConnector(redisConnectionStr, redisRoute))
 }
 
@@ -36,6 +37,10 @@ func redisConnector(connectionString string, version string) string {
 		DB:       0,
 	})
 
+	if err := client.Ping(ctx).Err(); err != nil {
+		panic(err)
+	}
+
 	for _, e := range os.Environ() {
 		pair := strings.SplitN(e, "=", 2)
 		err := client.Set(ctx, pair[0], pair[1], 0).Err()