Configuration setting of HttpWebRequest.Timeout value

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Published on Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:56:43 GMT Indexed on 2012/06/15 15:17 UTC
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I wanted to set in configuration on client HttpWebRequest.Timeout.
I was surprised, that MS doesn’t provide it as a part of .Net configuration.
(Answer in http://forums.silverlight.net/post/77818.aspx thread: “Unfortunately specifying the timeout is not supported in current version. We may support it in the future release.”)

 

I added it to appSettings section of app.config and read it in the method of My HttpWebRequestHelper class

  //The Method property can be set to any of the HTTP 1.1 protocol verbs: GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, DELETE, TRACE, or OPTIONS.
       public static HttpWebRequest PrepareWebRequest(string sUrl, string Method, CookieContainer cntnrCookies)
       {
           HttpWebRequest webRequest = WebRequest.Create(sUrl) as HttpWebRequest;
           webRequest.Method = Method;
           webRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
           webRequest.CookieContainer = cntnrCookies;
webRequest.Timeout = ConfigurationExtensions.GetAppSetting("HttpWebRequest.Timeout", 100000);
//default 100sec-http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckh/archive/2005/02/01/365127.aspx)
           /*                //try to change - from http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/ClientTicket_MSNP9.asp          
                       webRequest.AllowAutoRedirect = false;
                      webRequest.Pipelined = false;
                       webRequest.KeepAlive = false;
                       webRequest.ProtocolVersion = new Version(1,0);//protocol 1.0 works better that 1.1 ??
           */
           //MNF 26/5/2005 Some web servers expect UserAgent to be specified
           //so let's say it's IE6
           webRequest.UserAgent = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)";

           DebugOutputHelper.PrintHttpWebRequest(webRequest, TraceOutputHelper.LineWithTrace(""));
           return webRequest;
       }

Related link:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/387247/i-need-help-setting-net-httpwebrequest-timeout

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