Http Timeout webread not working

Hello, I'm running into 5 second timeout although I increased it with this webread:

import matlab.io.xml.dom.*
import matlab.io.xml.xpath.*
weboptions('Timeout',60) 

data=webread("http://xxx/values.xml");
doc = parseString(Parser,data);

Output:

GetTankLevels

ans = 

  weboptions with properties:

      CharacterEncoding: 'auto'
              UserAgent: 'MATLAB 9.13.0.2085925 (R2022b) Update 1'
                Timeout: 60
               Username: ''
               Password: ''
                KeyName: ''
               KeyValue: ''
            ContentType: 'auto'
          ContentReader: []
              MediaType: 'auto'
          RequestMethod: 'auto'
            ArrayFormat: 'csv'
           HeaderFields: []
    CertificateFilename: 'default'

Error using webread
The connection to URL 'http://xxx/values.xml' timed out after 5.000 seconds. The reason is "Connection timeout after 5099 ms". Perhaps the server is not responding or
weboptions.Timeout needs to be set to a higher value.

Answer 1

[VINAYAK LUHA]

Hi Tobias,

I understand that your "webread" request terminates with a timeout error despite explicitly setting the timeout time higher using the "weboptions" function.

Here is a solution to resolve the timeout error:

1. Create a "weboptions" object with timeout set to 60 seconds.
2. Pass this created object as second parameter to the "webread" function

Further, I've also attached the code snippet for your better understanding:

options =weboptions('Timeout',60)
data=webread("http://xxx/values.xml",options);

I hope you find this solution helpful and the timeout error now stands resolved.

Regards,

Vinayak Luha