HTTP, 408 Request timeout

Question

I have an application, written in C++. This app dispatches a certain info to a script located on a remote website using HTTP POST requests. The app sends requests with a per

Answer 1

I know this is an old post but thought this might help someone since this problem cause me hours of frustration.

I was experiencing the same issue with a GoDaddy webserver. My Android app sent POST requests to the server and would work as expected but I started experiencing 408 Request timeout errors after 30 mins or so. I also noticed that the problem went away if I opened up a browser and opened my home page (PHP Wordpress site) from a PC or the Android device. The website was in test so web traffic was minimal and I was able to confirm this behaviour in the server logs fairly easily.

I logged a support call to GoDaddy but whilst their staff were responsive and helpful, they did not provide any useful information to explain the behaviour.

I was however able to work around the issue by simply executing a dummy GET request before my POST request and this 'woke up' the web server and it responded to all subsequent POST requests.