From 5873aa2aaa441b438183675d6dcff20a68e199a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeromy <jeromyj@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 21:46:51 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] if no context set in request, use context.TODO()

License: MIT
Signed-off-by: Jeromy <jeromyj@gmail.com>
---
 commands/http/client.go | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/commands/http/client.go b/commands/http/client.go
index 9d21c9d5e..cebdc314b 100644
--- a/commands/http/client.go
+++ b/commands/http/client.go
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ import (
 
 	cmds "github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/commands"
 	config "github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/repo/config"
+
+	context "github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/Godeps/_workspace/src/golang.org/x/net/context"
 )
 
 const (
@@ -35,6 +37,14 @@ func NewClient(address string) Client {
 
 func (c *client) Send(req cmds.Request) (cmds.Response, error) {
 
+	if req.Context() == nil {
+		log.Warningf("no context set in request")
+		err := req.SetRootContext(context.TODO())
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+	}
+
 	// save user-provided encoding
 	previousUserProvidedEncoding, found, err := req.Option(cmds.EncShort).String()
 	if err != nil {