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Are there any downside of increasing sendtimeout in WcfBinding?


My application calls a 3rd party WCF service and chances are that it get time-out 10 in 100 times.

What should i do, should i increase the SendTimeout, are there any downside of it.??


Solution

  • You can't save some investigation. Timeout may be caused by broken connectivity, network overload or server overload. And be aware: using longer timeouts will cause more load on both servers -- your and the 3rd party as well.
    Timeout is usually not the problem itself, just a symptom of it.