HttpWebRequest.ReadWriteTimeout Property

Gets or sets a timeout in milliseconds when writing to or reading from a stream.

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

Syntax

public int ReadWriteTimeout { get; set; }

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

This property is used to control the timeout when calling Stream.Read Method and Stream.Write Method. This property affects Stream instances that are returned from the GetResponse().WebResponse.GetResponseStream method and GetResponse().HttpWebRequest.GetRequestStream method.

Exception type	Condition
InvalidOperationException	The timeout cannot be changed, because the request was already submitted.
ArgumentOutOfRangeException	The timeout is not a valid value.

Available in the .NET Micro Framework versions 4.0 and 4.1.