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

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

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.net.httpwebrequest.readwritetimeout?view=netcore-3.1

HttpWebRequest.ReadWriteTimeout Property

Definition

Namespace:

System.Net

Assembly:

System.Net.Requests.dll

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

C#

public int ReadWriteTimeout { get; set; }

Property Value

Int32

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

Exceptions

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

Examples

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

C#

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

myReq.ReadWriteTimeout = 100000;

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.

Applies to

.NET

5.0 Preview 8

.NET Core

3.1 3.0 2.2 2.1 2.0

.NET Framework

4.8 4.7.2 4.7.1 4.7 4.6.2 4.6.1 4.6 4.5.2 4.5.1 4.5 4.0 3.5 3.0 2.0 1.1

.NET Standard

2.1 2.0

Xamarin.Android

7.1

Xamarin.iOS

10.8

Xamarin.Mac

3.0

See also

• Timeout