Fix issue #3

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/client.go b/client.go
index 14f7129..0610e22 100644
--- a/client.go
+++ b/client.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package tamtam
 import (
 	"bytes"
 	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
 	"io"
 	"net/http"
 	"net/url"
@@ -10,6 +11,10 @@ import (
 	"github.com/neonxp/tamtam/schemes"
 )
 
+var (
+	errLongPollTimeout = errors.New("timeout")
+)
+
 type client struct {
 	key        string
 	version    string
@@ -44,7 +49,7 @@ func (cl *client) requestReader(method, path string, query url.Values, body io.R
 		err, ok := err.(*url.Error)
 		if ok {
 			if err.Timeout() {
-				return nil, nil
+				return nil, errLongPollTimeout
 			}
 		}
 		return nil, err