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How can I set a timeout for a specific request?

A colleague of mine tried doing the request inside kotlinx.coroutine’s `withTimeout` function, but all hell broke loose. :sweat_smile:

we get a very weird exception when doing a request inside `withTimeout`:
```kotlinx.serialization.SerializationException: Can't locate argument-less serializer for class kotlinx.coroutines.CoroutineScope```

You may want to comment on <https://github.com/ktorio/ktor/issues/728> or <https://github.com/ktorio/ktor/issues/1134>.

I figured out that the weird exception only happens if you request inside `withTimeout` and you’re using the “JsonFeature” on your client:
```val client = HttpClient(clientEngine) {
    install(JsonFeature) {
        serializer = KotlinxSerializer(Json)
    }
}
client.request(someHttpRequestBuilder) // exception, someone tried to serialize the coroutine itself```
I’ll try to make a minimal project reproducing this problem and create a new issue