golang using timeouts with channels

Question

I am using goroutines/channels to check if list of urls are reachable. Here is my code. This seems to always return true. Why is the timeout case not getting executed? The g

Answer 1

change the line

ch := make(chan bool, 1)

to

ch := make(chan bool)

You did open a asynchronous (= non blocking) channel, but you need a blocking channel to get it work.