The HTTP request to *.svc has exceeded the allotted timeout. The time allotted to this operation may have been a portion of a longer timeout.

The HTTP request to *.svc has exceeded the allotted timeout. The time allotted to this operation may have been a portion of a longer timeout.

I have been developing a Silverlight application using WCF.

The problem is that sometimes it throws an exception stating:

"The HTTP request to 'http://localhost:1276/Foo.svc' has exceeded the allotted timeout. The time allotted to this operation may have been a portion of a longer timeout."

So how do I increase the timespan? Some have suggested the usage of receive time out as below in web config and in service.client config file

 <bindings>       <customBinding >         <binding  name="customBinding0" receiveTimeout="02:00:00" >           <binaryMessageEncoding maxReadPoolSize="2147483647" maxWritePoolSize="2147483647" maxSessionSize="2147483647" />             <httpTransport maxBufferPoolSize="2147483647" maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647" maxBufferSize="2147483647" transferMode="Buffered"/>          </binding>       </customBinding>           </bindings> 

what would be the maximum value for the receiveTimeout property?

Answers & Comments...

Answer: 1

How to change it by code: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kylemc/archive/2010/11/03/how-to-change-the-request-timeout-for-wcf-ria-services.aspx

by : Jonxhttp://stackoverflow.com/users/106404

Answer: 2

I imagine the issue is not that your ReceiveTimeout is beyond the maximum value for that setting, as the MaxValue of a TimeSpan is over 10 million days. Instead, I think the settings are just not taking effect.

You should try increasing the timeout values on both the server and the client-side per this blog post:

On the server (in your web.config)

<binding name="customBinding0" receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:10:00" openTimeout="00:10:00" closeTimeout="00:10:00"> 

On the client (in your ServiceReferences.ClientConfig)

<binding name="CustomBinding_DesignOnDemandService" receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:10:00" openTimeout="00:10:00" closeTimeout="00:10:00"> 

by : YeahStuhttp://stackoverflow.com/users/1300

Answer: 3

The HTTP request to has exceeded the allotted timeout. The time allotted to this operation may have been a portion of a longer timeout.

Three places to set time values to fix this issue…

1. Web.Config

   <httpRuntime executionTimeout="600" /> 

   (this is seconds, so here it's 10min). More info on httpRuntime here.

2. On your Web.Config Binding Elements

   <binding name="customBinding123"     receiveTimeout="00:10:00"     sendTimeout="00:10:00"     openTimeout="00:10:00"     closeTimeout="00:10:00" /> 

3. On your ServerReferences.ClientConfig binding elements within the system.serviceModel

   <binding name="CustomBinding"     receiveTimeout="00:10:00"     sendTimeout="00:10:00"     openTimeout="00:10:00"     closeTimeout="00:10:00" /> 

by : mounesh hiremanihttp://stackoverflow.com/users/1590220

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