Powershell script with Invoke-Restmethod ends before getting APIresponse

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I have a powershell script which uses Invoke-RestMethod to invoke an API to trigger test execution. The test execution has takes about 3 hours. However, powershell script ends after 1Hr 40 Mins.

The powershell scripts is triggered as part of Jenkins Job.

Invoke-RestMethod is as below.

$result = Invoke-RestMethod -Headers $basic -Uri $URI -Body $Body -Method Post -ContentType “application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8” -TimeoutSec 600

How to have the powershell script run till Inoke-RestMethod gets a response?

I tried calling the powershell script as part of Start-Process with -Wait parameter but it does not help.

$Outfilename = $Env:Outputfile
$proc = Start-Process powershell -argument “C:\scripts\xxxxexecution.ps1” -wait -PassThru -RedirectStandardOutput “Outputfile.txt”
$proc.WaitForExit();
if ($proc.ExitCode -ne 0) {
Write-Host “$_ exited with status code $($proc.ExitCode)”
Get-Content .\Outputfile.txt
Exit 1
}
else {
Write-Host “$_ exited with status code $($proc.ExitCode)”
Get-Content .\Outputfile.txt
Exit 0
}

Any help will be appreciated.

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According to the documentation, TimeOutSec defaults to 0, which is no timeout:

What does the API documentation state for session length? Are you getting an error? You specified it ends at a very specific time, 1 hr 40 minutes, 100 minutes or 6000 seconds. The code you posted has a limit of 600 seconds, which is 10 minutes. If you are specifying 6000, then it will stop at 1hr 40 min, so no TimeOutSec should be provided or use 0.

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Thank you Rob Simmers. I have actually given TimeoutSec as 6000. That was the reason why is it stopping after 1 Hr 40 Mins. I have changed the TimeOutSec to 0, it worked fine.

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