Specify the timeout in milliseconds. This value is used for both the connection and socket timeout of any internal connection. If B2C Commerce receives no response within this time, it throws an error.
The total run time of a service can be longer than the timeout, as long as individual responses don't exceed it. For example, consider a 5000-ms timeout. A 4-second connection attempt, followed by reading two chunks of data at 4 seconds apiece, takes about 13 seconds total. Because none of the individual communications exceeded 5 seconds, the process does not time out.