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Asked: 2026-05-11T01:54:21+00:00

What is a reasonable amount of time to wait for a web request to

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What is a reasonable amount of time to wait for a web request to return? I know this is maybe a little loaded as a question, but all I am trying to do is verify if a web page is available.

Maybe there is a better way?

try  {      // Create the web request      HttpWebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(this.getUri()) as HttpWebRequest;      request.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;      // 2 minutes for timeout     request.Timeout = 120 * 1000;      if (request != null)     {         // Get response          response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse;          connectedToUrl = processResponseCode(response);     }     else     {         logger.Fatal(getFatalMessage());          string error = string.Empty;     } }  catch (WebException we)  {  ... }  catch (Exception e)  {  ... }
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  1. You need to consider how long the consumer of the web service is going to take e.g. if you are connecting to a DB web server and you run a lengthy query, you need to make the web service timeout longer then the time the query will take. Otherwise, the web service will (erroneously) time out.

    I also use something like (consumer time) + 10 seconds.

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