Resolving the "request canceled while waiting for connection" Error in Docker for Windows
I'm currently learning how to use containers with Docker for Windows, but ran into a brick wall pretty early after installing it and trying to run the sample hello-world image. After executing docker run hello-world , I got the following response: Error response from daemon: Get https://registry-1.docker.io/v2/: net/http: request canceled while waiting for connection (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers). In an attempt to resolve this, I created a Docker ID, confirmed my email address to activate it, then restarted Docker and opened a new Powershell prompt, but got the same result. My first thought was that this was a firewall issue, but when I checked my firewall configuration I found that Docker was already setup correctly for internet access. After some Googling, it turned out my issue was much simpler. All I needed to do was switch Docker to use Windows containers instead of Linux containers (Linux containers are the default for Docker for Windows)....