GetResponse with "0" argument(s): "The operation has timed out

Question

_{Wednesday, May 25, 2016 1:25 PM}

I have created a job that opens a webpage on our internal LAN. The webpage takes 4 to 5 minutes to complete it's process which is expected so I set a high timeout of 10 minutes.
 The powershell job seems to run fine but I always get an error for getresponse get This is the error
***The corresponding line is '$response = $request.GetResponse()   '. Correct the script and reschedule the job. The error information returned by PowerShell is: 'Exception calling "GetResponse" with "0" argument(s): "The operation has timed out" **

Code:*

$request =[System.Net.WebRequest]::Create("http://myinternalsite.com")
$request.timeout = 60000; # 10 Minutes
$response = $request.GetResponse() 
$response.Close()

I tried searching for a solution but nothing seemed to help me.
How can I resolve this issue? 
Thanks

All replies (5)

_{Wednesday, May 25, 2016 7:14 PM ✅Answered}

actually I got it working, my issue was my timeout was not long enough I missed a zero in my time out, It would timeout after one minute instead of 10 minutes.

Evidently that minute was long enough for my page to execute but not long enough to get a response.

$request =[System.Net.WebRequest]::Create("http://myinternalsite.com")
$request.timeout = 600000; # 10 Minutes
$response = $request.GetResponse() 
$response.Close()

_{Wednesday, May 25, 2016 1:30 PM}

The server is timing out the request for some reason.  As the webmaster to check the logs.

\(ツ)_/

_{Wednesday, May 25, 2016 5:24 PM}

The IIS log shows a status of 200 for my request which means is completed successfully.

This script does open a page with Ajax on it.

_{Wednesday, May 25, 2016 6:27 PM}

The IIS log shows a status of 200 for my request which means is completed successfully.

This script does open a page with Ajax on it.

You cannot access Ajax pages with this method.  Ajax pages do not ever actually complete.  The client will timeout.

You need a browser to execute the JavaScript that implements Ajax.  WebRequest does not do this.

\(ツ)_/

_{Thursday, May 26, 2016 3:04 AM | 1 vote}

Hi，

Glad you get it working and thanks for the sharing.

Best Regards,

Elaine

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