# AJAX request times out after 1 minute
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ajax-request-times-out-after-1-minute/285873
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [November 17, 2023, 4:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ajax-request-times-out-after-1-minute/285873 "2023-11-17T16:31:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@tomve](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tomve)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2023, 4:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ajax-request-times-out-after-1-minute/285873/1 "2023-11-17T16:31:03Z")
A while I ago I created a Discourse plugin which calls a controller method via `ajax` and then returns the result. This particular request can run for a few minutes, and this was running fine.
But now after a long while I tried the plugin in the current Discourse version and I’m running into an issue where the request is aborted after 1 minute.
So the code looks like this:
```plaintext
ajax("/my-plugin/import", {
type: "POST",
data: {
categoryId: this.categoryId,
otherData: ...
}
}).then((result) => { ... });
```
And the error message I see after 1 minute is:
> Discourse Ember CLI Proxy Error
>
> FetchError: request to [http://127.0.0.1:3000/my-plugin/import](http://127.0.0.1:3000/my-plugin/import) failed, reason: socket hang up
> at ClientRequest. (file:///src/app/assets/javascripts/node\_modules/node-fetch/src/index.js:108:11)
> at ClientRequest.emit (node:events:526:35)
> at Socket.socketOnEnd (node:\_http\_client:525:9)
> at Socket.emit (node:events:526:35)
> at endReadableNT (node:internal/streams/readable:1359:12)
> at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task\_queues:82:21)
What I’m trying to understand is why this behaviour might have changed in the past year? And if there is any option to change the timeout setting.
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2023, 4:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ajax-request-times-out-after-1-minute/285873/2 "2023-11-17T16:51:17Z")
I don’t think there has been any recent change here. Discourse’s backend is configured to timeout requests after 60 seconds in development, or 30 seconds in production
>
It looks like this is configurable in development via the `UNICORN_TIMEOUT` env variable. But production is hard-coded to 30 seconds.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2023, 11:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ajax-request-times-out-after-1-minute/285873/3 "2023-11-17T23:49:43Z")
Maybe you want to schedule jobs to process the import.
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### Author:  [@tomve](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tomve)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2023, 12:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ajax-request-times-out-after-1-minute/285873/4 "2023-11-30T12:46:59Z")
In the end I did rewrite it to handle the import in a scheduled job, which turned out to be a lot better.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2023, 12:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ajax-request-times-out-after-1-minute/285873/5 "2023-12-30T12:47:38Z")
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