net/http: handle close/response race more gracefully
There was a logical race in Transport.RoundTrip where a roundtrip with
a pending response would race with the channel for the connection
closing. This usually happened for responses with connection: close
and no body.
We handled this race by reading the close channel, setting a timer
for 100ms and if no response was returned before then, we would then
return an error.
This put a lower bound on how fast a connection could fail. We couldn't
fail a request faster than 100ms.
Reordering the channel operations gets rid of the logical race. If
the readLoop causes the connection to be closed, it would have put
its response into the return channel already and we can fetch it with
a non-blocking receive.