HttpClient - A task was cancelled?

Question

It works fine when have one or two tasks however throws an error "A task was cancelled" when we have more than one task listed.

List<Task> allTasks = new List<Task>();
allTasks.Add(....);
allTasks.Add(....);
Task.WaitAll(allTasks.ToArray(), configuration.CancellationToken);


private static Task<T> HttpClientSendAsync<T>(string url, object data, HttpMethod method, string contentType, CancellationToken token)
{
    HttpRequestMessage httpRequestMessage = new HttpRequestMessage(method, url);
    HttpClient httpClient = new HttpClient();
    httpClient.Timeout = new TimeSpan(Constants.TimeOut);

    if (data != null)
    {
        byte[] byteArray = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(Helper.ToJSON(data));
        MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream(byteArray);
        httpRequestMessage.Content = new StringContent(new StreamReader(memoryStream).ReadToEnd(), Encoding.UTF8, contentType);
    }

    return httpClient.SendAsync(httpRequestMessage).ContinueWith(task =>
    {
        var response = task.Result;
        return response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().ContinueWith(stringTask =>
        {
            var json = stringTask.Result;
            return Helper.FromJSON<T>(json);
        });
    }).Unwrap();
}

Answer 1

There's 2 likely reasons that a TaskCanceledException would be thrown:

1. Something called Cancel() on the CancellationTokenSource associated with the cancellation token before the task completed.
2. The request timed out, i.e. didn't complete within the timespan you specified on HttpClient.Timeout.

My guess is it was a timeout. (If it was an explicit cancellation, you probably would have figured that out.) You can be more certain by inspecting the exception:

try
{
    var response = task.Result;
}
catch (TaskCanceledException ex)
{
    // Check ex.CancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested here.
    // If false, it's pretty safe to assume it was a timeout.
}