How to set timeout value for CHttpFile::SendReqeust()?

[lassa]

How do I set a timeout value for the CHttpFile::SendRequest() method? It seems like SendRequest will keep trying to send requests to a server for up to 5 minutes. I want to be able to reduce it to about 30 seconds... Anyway to do this? Thanks.

[John Holifield]

Have you figured out how to set the time out to something other than 5 minutes? My problem is very similar, but I need to increase the amount of time before the timeout. If you find the answer to your question, would you please post it here?

thanx,
John

[chequan]

Now, I am facing this problem. Have you resolved it? Please tell me how to increase the timeout. Thanks very much!

[davel]

In MFC, use the CInternetSession::SetOption and set the timeout value for the INTERNET_OPTION_CONNECT_TIMEOUT flag.

With Wininet, you can directly call InternetSetOption api.

This timeout will apply to all the 'SendRequest' calls for that session. I dont know if you can set the timeout for every individual SendRequest (i also dont know why you'd want to do that).

[Elmue]

Hello

This answer is not correct.
The question was how to set the timeout for SendRequest(), but INTERNET_OPTION_CONNECT_TIMEOUT sets the timeout to CONNECT the server.

So you should set INTERNET_OPTION_RECEIVE_TIMEOUT.

I tried it. It works:

CInternetSession i_Session;
i_Session.SetOption(INTERNET_OPTION_RECEIVE_TIMEOUT, 1000);

sets timeout of 1 second (just for testing) and throws exception if exceeded.

But it makes much sense to set BOTH timeouts because if you have a network problem your application will hang 5 MINUTES when it cannot connect the server.
(What a stupid default timeout!)