socketTimeoutInterval and LC server

Pi Digital sean at pidigital.co.uk
Wed Nov 26 10:35:25 EST 2025


Hi jbv

If a socket response is taking more than 30s then there IS likely a problem with the connection. What conditions would you expect it to take longer for? 

Sean Cole
Pi Digital

> On 26 Nov 2025, at 14:17, jbv via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi list,
> 
> I have a script on my on-rev account that sends curl requests
> via an API to another server. The default value of socketTimeoutInterval
> is 10000, but it's almost inpossible to predict how long it will take to
> receive the response from each successive request (between 2 to 30 seconds).
> So I was wondering what is the maximum possible value for socketTimeoutInterval
> without taking the risk of crashing anything...
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> jbv
> 
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