TimeOut
Syntax: TimeOut
number
Default: TimeOut
300
Context: server config
Status: core
The TimeOut directive currently defines the amount of time
Apache will wait for three things:
- The total amount of time it takes to receive a GET
request.
- The amount of time between receipt of TCP packets on a POST or
PUT request.
- The amount of time between ACKs on transmissions of TCP packets
in responses.
We plan on making these separately configurable at some point down
the road. The timer used to default to 1200 before 1.2, but has
been lowered to 300 which is still far more than necessary in most
situations. It is not set any lower by default because there may
still be odd places in the code where the timer is not reset when a
packet is sent.