Hi, 

I created a protocol that I would like to run from a URL (e.g. http://my.plpserver.com:9943/protocols/anon/my_protocol?\\\$streamfile=/%5C.html). 

When a user clicks on above link it will run the protocol, but unfortunately the protocol is not finished within the timeout of 40 seconds. With support op BIOVIA I managed to optimize the protocol. That saved some time, but it is impossible to finish within 40 seconds. The only solution that I now have is to increase the timeout. 

• Increase the blocking job timeout in the job settings in the PLP server admin page (Setup/Job Settings) to e.g. 300 seconds
• Add &\\\$timeout=300000 to above URL to set the timeout to 5 minutes (value is in milliseconds)

Both solutions will work, but I assume that BIOVIA had a good reason to set the blocking job timeout to 40 seconds by default. So my question is what will be the risk when I increase the timeout to 5 minutes?

Thanks,

Arjan