NSURLSession: How to increase time out for URL requests?

Question

I am using iOS 7\'s new NSURLSessionDataTask to retrieve data as follows:

NSURLSession *session = [NSURLSession sharedSession];

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Answer 1

In swift 3. timeout 15 seconds.

    let configuration = URLSessionConfiguration.default
    configuration.timeoutIntervalForRequest = TimeInterval(15)
    configuration.timeoutIntervalForResource = TimeInterval(15)
    let session = URLSession(configuration: configuration)