When doing a large upload, I get a timeout if the upload takes more than 1 minute -- even if the client is steadily providing data. The server should not timeout if while the client is providing data.

The error I see in my logs comes from here (line 49 in params.go):

    if err := req.ParseMultipartForm(32 << 20 /* 32 MB */); err != nil {
        WARN.Println("Error parsing request body:", err)

In revel/server.go, I noticed the server timeouts are set, so I was able to work around my issue with:

init() {
    revel.OnAppStart(fixServerTimeout)
}

func fixServerTimeout() {
    revel.Server.ReadTimeout = 0
    revel.Server.WriteTimeout = 0
}

which is neither documented or intuitive, but does work.

I think your intention may have been to timeout if the client does not provide data for a minute, or if the server fails to respond after a minute.

Consider, however, the case where the client is uploading a huge file: the server does not respond for a minute because it is still reading, which is perfectly legitimate. However, since it's not writing for a minute, it times out because of the write timeout (Another workaround might be to use threading and send continues).

I don't think the server read/write timeouts should be set at all, or if they are, they should be larger and configurable in the conf file.