Set timeout in Alamofire

Question

I am using Alamofire 4.0.1 and I want to set a timeout for my request. I tried the solutions gived in this question:

In the first case

Answer 1

Alamofire 5.1 includes a new way to modify the request with a closure in the initializer:

AF.request(url) { $0.timeoutInterval = 60 }
    .validate()
    .response { _ in // handle response here }