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Send Http Request. Http request failed: the server did not respond within the timeout limit.

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Posted on 20 Nov 2024 21:41:14 by johnjohnPter

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I have a Send Http Request to external API, but most of them time the action failed with this error:-

{
"error": {
"code": "BadRequest",
"message": "Http request failed: the server did not respond within the timeout limit. Please see logic app limits at https://aka.ms/logic-apps-limits-and-config#http-limits."
}
}

and it keeps trying to get the data for 12 tries without any success call, and each try will take 2 minutes;-

Now i have the default setting for this action which uses Asynchronous call, as follow:-

So how i can increase the duration of the call to be more than 2 minutes? although using PostMan i can get the data in less than 30 seconds!!

Any advice? I also uncheck the "Asynchronous Pattern" checkbox, but nothing differ,, so not sure what this checkbox is suppose to do..

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Meekou 189 Super User 2025 Season 1 on 22 Nov 2024 at 02:16:50

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Send Http Request. Http request failed: the server did not respond within the timeout limit.

You will need to check request in the flow history, and then compare it with the request from postman, check whether there is any difference.
Pay attention to check value for the parameters value.
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Meekou
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johnjohnPter 1,542 Super User 2024 Season 1 on 21 Nov 2024 at 13:56:54

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Send Http Request. Http request failed: the server did not respond within the timeout limit.

@Meekou

Those are the headers and the full request:-

Thanks
Meekou 189 Super User 2025 Season 1 on 21 Nov 2024 at 05:54:40

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Send Http Request. Http request failed: the server did not respond within the timeout limit.

Could you share your request header and body for postman and power automate flow?

In general, it should not make such difference for the same request.

Regards,

Meekou
johnjohnPter 1,542 Super User 2024 Season 1 on 20 Nov 2024 at 23:51:01

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Send Http Request. Http request failed: the server did not respond within the timeout limit.

Mark Nanneman

First yes we on this forum help each other for free, looks wired to you?

also i am not asking specific question about the API, as i can connect to it using Postman, so the problem is with power automate that it time out after 2 minutes,,, not sure if this info is interested to you,, i though you already know this..
Mark Nanneman 989 Super User 2025 Season 1 on 20 Nov 2024 at 23:36:25

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Anyway thanks for your time in replying to my recent questions, but do u test what you post? or you post based on what u think should work?

Obviously I can't test your API call buddy, cause I don't know what it is. 😁
Just giving you some tips on how to set the time out and retry policy on your end (so you're at least not making dozens of badrequests to your endpoint).

Good luck, hopefully someone else can spend time helping you for free👍
johnjohnPter 1,542 Super User 2024 Season 1 on 20 Nov 2024 at 23:21:04

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Send Http Request. Http request failed: the server did not respond within the timeout limit.

Mark Nanneman

also i am not sure if setting a timeout will make any differences, here what i did :-

but still each try will timeout after 2 minutes:-

Anyway thanks for your time in replying to my recent questions, but do u test what you post? or you post based on what u think should work?

Thanks
johnjohnPter 1,542 Super User 2024 Season 1 on 20 Nov 2024 at 22:30:47

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@Mark Nanneman

Thanks for the reply.. i am using the exact headers and i am using username and password... also setting the retry the way u mentioned will not solve the issue, it will only fail my flow earlier, am i correct?
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Mark Nanneman 989 Super User 2025 Season 1 on 20 Nov 2024 at 22:16:16

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Send Http Request. Http request failed: the server did not respond within the timeout limit.

First, if it works quickly in PostMan but not in Power Automate, consider checking your Headers and any Authentication you're using. Sometimes there's an issue with cookies. You might also not have something right in your payload (if there is one).

If you own / can access the other end of the API you can make sure it's configured correctly.
On your end though what you should do is change the "Duration". The example it gives is "P1D" which is a one day timeout. This is in ISO 8601 format, you can google this or ask chatGPT.

You could do PT1H for one hour, PT15M for 15min.

You could also consider setting your "Retry Policy" to none or an interval.

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