Timeouts with long running ASP.NET MVC Core Controller HTTPPost Method

Question

I make use of ajax call in my ASP.NET Core MVC view pages

MyView.cshtml

          $.ajax({
                processData: false,
                contentType: false,
                data: new FormData(this),
                type: $(this).attr('method'),
                url: $(this).attr('action'),
                cache: false,
                success: function (data) {
                        $('#mydiv).html(data);
                        $('#bootstrapModal).modal('show');

Controller Post method"

    [HttpPost]
    [ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
    public async Task<IActionResult> MyLongRunningMethod(MyViewModel viewModel)
    {
        await MyProcess.Longprocess1();
        await MyProcess.Longprocess2();
        await MyProcess.Longprocess3();
        await MyProcess.Longprocess4();
        return PartialView("_MyPartialPage");
    }

This works but only has an issue for a long running process. I get the following error during debug mode when the process takes longer than around 2 minutes

I understand this is to do with expiration timeout

in previous versions of ASP.NET MVC you can apparently increase the timeout in your asp.net controller action.

HttpContext.Current.Server.ScriptTimeout = 90000;

However this doesn't exist in ASP.NET Core

I want to increase the timeout for debugging and deployment for a particular asp.net controller.

For production I can set it globally in the web.config by adding requestTimeout to the existing httpPlatform tag. eg for 10 minutes

<httpPlatform requestTimeout="00:10:00" ....

A similar question was asked but the answer giving using an CancellationToken but reading it, it doesn't seem it can help me with the timeouts.

1. How do I set the timeouts in Visual Studio 2015 debug mode like I can do when I deploy it?
2. IS there a per controller timeout setting like there was in ASP.NET 4 ?

Answer 1

Setting the RequestTimeout="00:20:00" on the aspNetCore tag and deploying the site will cause it not to timeout.

Issue now only occurs when running from Visual Studio debug mode but not in release mode.

Take note: In ASP.NET RTM the httpPlatform tag has been replaced with aspNetCore in the web.config

Example for ASP.NET Core

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <configuration> <system.webServer> <handlers> <add name="aspNetCore" path="*" verb="*" modules="AspNetCoreModule" resourceType="Unspecified"/> </handlers> <aspNetCore requestTimeout="00:20:00" processPath="%LAUNCHER_PATH%" arguments="%LAUNCHER_ARGS%" stdoutLogEnabled="false" stdoutLogFile=".\\logs\\stdout" forwardWindowsAuthToken="false"/> </system.webServer> </configuration>

Answer 2

But in .Net Core 2.0 there is no web.config file in project. It generate automatically.

I solved the problem by adding .UseKestrel(...) to the BuildWebHost function in Program.cs file as follows:

public static IWebHost BuildWebHost(string[] args) =>
    WebHost.CreateDefaultBuilder(args)
        .UseStartup<Startup>()
        .UseKestrel(o => { o.Limits.KeepAliveTimeout = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(10); })
        .Build();
}

Answer 3

In my case we still had the 502 timeout error at 2 minutes even after updating the requestTimeout parameter. It turned out that kestrel has a 2 minute keep alive timeout which needed to be overridden:

var host = new WebHostBuilder()
               .UseKestrel(o =>
                    {
                        o.Limits.KeepAliveTimeout = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(30);
                    }
                )

Answer 4

The accepted answer has changed since .Net Core 3.1. In NET Core 3.1 use the following implementation to increase KeepAliveTimeout:

Program.cs

public static IHostBuilder CreateHostBuilder(string[] args) =>
        Host.CreateDefaultBuilder(args)
            .ConfigureWebHostDefaults(webBuilder =>
            {
                webBuilder.UseStartup<Startup>();
                webBuilder.ConfigureKestrel(options =>
                {
                    options.Limits.KeepAliveTimeout = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(15);
                });
            });

Web.Config (You need to add the config file to your project if it doesn't exist.)

Increase requestTimeout as required on the web.config:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
  <system.webServer>
    <handlers>
      <add name="aspNetCore" path="*" verb="*" modules="AspNetCoreModuleV2" resourceType="Unspecified"/>
    </handlers>
    <aspNetCore requestTimeout="00:15:00"  processPath="%LAUNCHER_PATH%" arguments="%LAUNCHER_ARGS%" stdoutLogEnabled="false" stdoutLogFile=".\logs\stdout" />
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

Answer 5

for me this worked:

public static void Main(string[] args)
{
    CreateWebHostBuilder(args).Build().Run();
}

public static IWebHostBuilder CreateWebHostBuilder(string[] args) =>
    WebHost.CreateDefaultBuilder(args)
        .UseStartup<Startup>()
        .ConfigureKestrel(o => { o.Limits.KeepAliveTimeout = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(10); });

Answer 6

For .net core 6.0

var builder = WebApplication.CreateBuilder(args);

builder.WebHost.ConfigureKestrel(t =>
{
   t.Limits.KeepAliveTimeout = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(15);
});

Answer 7

In Visual Studio not appear file web.config in Solution Explore. I fixed adding the file in Solution and changed the property "Copy to output Directory".