Changing Request Timeout in Asp.net WebAPI

Question

I have an ASP.net web api that is timing out request at around ~100 seconds. One of my action methods needs more time to complete a request.

After going over various link, I have already figured out that the following will not work

a) executionTimeout & ScriptTimeout as request pipeline is completely asynchronous and those values were for synchronous pipeline back then.

b) [AsyncTimeout(seconds)] attribute as it applies only for MVC web applications and ASP web api does not reference system.web.mvc

Is there any other approach on controlling timeout for this scenario?

Answer 1

Appears that there is no timeout enforced on Web API. The timeout was happening on client side. After changing the HttpClient.Timeout value it worked.