9.1. Overriding Default HTTP Runtime Parameters in web.config
Problem
You want to change the default HTTP runtime settings for your application, such as the execution timeout setting.
Solution
Modify the web.config
file by adding ASP.NET
HTTP runtime settings to it.
Locate the
web.config
file in the root directory of your application (or create one if it does not already exist).Add an
<httpRuntime>
element and set theexecutionTimeout
and other attributes required for your application:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration> <system.web>
<httpRuntime executionTimeout="90"
maxRequestLength="4096"
useFullyQualifiedRedirectUrl="false" />
</system.web> </configuration>
Discussion
It can be useful to modify the default HTTP runtime settings in
web.config so that users of your
application can upload large files, for example. But another, perhaps
more important, motivation for this recipe is to demonstrate in a
fairly unobtrusive way how you can easily override the predefined
settings for your application by adding elements, such as the
<httpRuntime>
element, to the default
web.config
file that Visual Studio .NET creates.
The following is a description of the attributes
we’ve used with the
<httpRuntime>
element, which are the most
commonly used attributes:
-
executionTimeout
The
executionTimeout
attribute of<httpRuntime>
defines the maximum amount of time in seconds that a request is allowed to run before it is automatically terminated by ASP.NET. The default value is 90 seconds. ...
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