Express 4.x closes connections after 2 minutes

Question

I have a simple node application which handles GET /foo. This request takes some time to compute and return a file. Each time the request lasts more than 2 minutes, the connection is closed. I'm using Express 4.10.2 and node 0.10.32.

I read that http module has a default timeout of 2 minutes: http://contourline.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/preventing-server-timeout-in-node-js/

I tried to use:

server.on('connection', function(socket) {
    socket.setTimeout(5*60*1000); //5 minutes
});

But even if the connection is not closed after two minutes, when the server tried to send the file back, I got:

{ [Error: Request aborted] code: 'ECONNABORT' }

EDIT:

server.setTimeout(5*60*1000); works fine! Thanks @mscdex

Did you try `server.setTimeout(5*60*1000)` outside of the `connection` event handler? — mscdex, Nov 13 '14 at 13:28

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 13 '14 at 14:33

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server.setTimeout() is the method that sets the HTTP connection timeout for all connections.

answered Nov 13 '14 at 14:33

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