XMLHttpRequest: timeout property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers, except for Service Workers.

The XMLHttpRequest.timeout property is an unsigned long representing the number of milliseconds a request can take before automatically being terminated. The default value is 0, which means there is no timeout. Timeout shouldn't be used for synchronous XMLHttpRequests requests used in a document environment or it will throw an InvalidAccessError exception. When a timeout happens, a timeout event is fired.

Note: You may not use a timeout for synchronous requests with an owning window.

Using a timeout with an asynchronous request.

Example

js
const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("GET", "/server", true);

xhr.timeout = 2000; // time in milliseconds

xhr.onload = () => {
  // Request finished. Do processing here.
};

xhr.ontimeout = (e) => {
  // XMLHttpRequest timed out. Do something here.
};

xhr.send(null);

Specifications

Specification
XMLHttpRequest
# the-timeout-attribute

Browser compatibility

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Chrome
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Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
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Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
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