NSURLSessionConfiguration timeoutIntervalForRequest doesn't seem to work with background session

Question

The new NSURLSessionConfiguration timeout property does not seem to work when the session is configured to run in the background (via a call to backgroundSessionConfiguration).

Does anyone know if this is true?

Code snippet:

NSURLSessionConfiguration *sessionConfig = [NSURLSessionConfiguration backgroundSessionConfiguration:bgSessionConfigIdentifier]; sessionConfig.HTTPMaximumConnectionsPerHost = 1; sessionConfig.timeoutIntervalForRequest = 60; 

Do I need to do anything extra for a timeout?

Answer 1

I ran into a similar problem, fixed it using timeoutIntervalForResource instead of timeoutIntervalForRequest

 NSURLSessionConfiguration *sessionConfig = [NSURLSessionConfigurationbackgroundSessionConfiguration:bgSessionConfigIdentifier]; sessionConfig.HTTPMaximumConnectionsPerHost = 1; sessionConfig.timeoutIntervalForResource = 60;