Interesting issue with ScriptManager timeout value happens only in win2k machines

Question

When I set the Asyncpostbacktimeout value to a large value like 3600000000, the scriptmanager throws a timeout exception (it throws the error almost immediately after user action which triggers ajax request, so it is not timing out because the server is not responding). If I reset this value to some sane number like 3600 or even 36000, it works fine. AJAx content is getting updated in the page.

This weirdness happens only in windows 2000 machines and does not happen in XP machines

Any thoughts ?

Answer 1

timeout must be int32 and the max you can set is 2147483647 as Int32.