Timeout behaviour in HttpWebRequest.GetResponse() vs GetResponseAsync()

Question

When I try the following code:

var request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(url);
request.Timeout = 3; // a small value

var response = request.GetRes         


        

Answer 1

Timeout does not apply to asynchronous HttpWebRequest requests. To quote the docs:

The Timeout property has no effect on asynchronous requests

I recommend you use HttpClient instead, which was designed with asynchronous requests in mind.

Answer 2

Follow a solution to solve the problem.

await Task.Run(() => { 
  var varHttpResponse = varWebRequest.GetResponse(); 
});