60-second timeout when deleting large feature layers

TimoT

Hi,

I'm running into a timeout issue when attempting to delete a large feature layer. I receive "Unable to delete item" at exactly 60 seconds in the network devtool logs.

I've seen similar issues discussed in Esri Community where a HTTPS operation timeout occurs if it takes longer than 60 seconds. Some examples below:

• https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/quot-timeout-exceeded-quot-when-change-hosted/td-p/1121528
• https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/quot-timeout-exceeded-quot-when-change-hosted/td-p/1121528
• https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-workflow-manager-questions/workflow-manager-web-request-gets-timeout-in-60/td-p/1292889
• https://support.esri.com/en-us/bug/the-error-message-timeout-exceeded-is-returned-when-try-bug-000135047

 

I do not believe this timeout is coming from any gateways/reverse proxies and also not from any Server service settings. Could it be something to do with javascript, browser, and synchronous requests having a 60 second timeout? Is there a way to perform an asynchronous delete request to get around this?