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HttpWebRequest.ReadWriteTimeout Property

.NET Framework 3.5

Other Versions

Gets or sets a time-out in milliseconds when writing to or reading from a stream.

Namespace: System.Net
Assembly: System (in System.dll)

Syntax

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public int ReadWriteTimeout { get; set; }

Property Value

Type: System.Int32
The number of milliseconds before the writing or reading times out. The default value is 300,000 milliseconds (5 minutes).

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
InvalidOperationException	The request has already been sent.
ArgumentOutOfRangeException	The value specified for a set operation is less than or equal to zero and is not equal to Infinite

Remarks

The ReadWriteTimeout property is used when writing to the stream returned by the GetRequestStream method or reading from the stream returned by the GetResponseStream method.

Specifically, the ReadWriteTimeout property controls the time-out for the Read method, which is used to read the stream returned by the GetResponseStream method, and for the Write method, which is used to write to the stream returned by the GetRequestStream method.

To specify the amount of time to wait for the request to complete, use the Timeout property.

Examples

The following code example shows how to set the ReadWriteTimeout property.

		HttpWebRequest myReq =
		(HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://www.contoso.com/");

		myReq.ReadWriteTimeout = 100000;

Platforms

Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98

The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

Version Information

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1

Reference

HttpWebRequest Class

HttpWebRequest Members

System.Net Namespace

Timeout

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