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

Try making your action Async if it is supposed to be long running to avoid deadlocks on your web server:

public async Task Index()
{
    await Task.Delay(230000);
    return View();
}

And you can set script timeout in the code in the controller:

HttpContext.Current.Server.ScriptTimeout = 300;

Note that HttpContext is instantiated on a per request basis, so it would be back to the default value on the next request