Increase azure web app request timeout

Question

Is there any way to increase the request timeout for azure web apps?

If I delay the request by anything over 2 minutes or so the request fails with no error (blank p

Answer 1

Hope this would be some help https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-configurable-idle-timeout-for-azure-load-balancer/. But I think it's bad idea keep request while some heavy job being executed. Imho, you'd better implement background job and check it status from client from time to time.