Title: http_request_timeout
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: August 20, 2026

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# apply_filters( ‘http_request_timeout’, float $timeout_value, string $url )

## In this article

 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/http_request_timeout/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/http_request_timeout/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/http_request_timeout/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/http_request_timeout/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Filters the timeout value for an HTTP request.

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/http_request_timeout/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$timeout_value`float

Time in seconds until a request times out. Default 5.

`$url`string

The request URL.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/http_request_timeout/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    'timeout'             => apply_filters( 'http_request_timeout', 5, $url ),
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/class-wp-http.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.1/src/wp-includes/class-wp-http.php#L181)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.1/src/wp-includes/class-wp-http.php#L181-L181)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/http_request_timeout/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Used by | Description | 
| [WP_Http::request()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_http/request/)`wp-includes/class-wp-http.php` |

Send an HTTP request to a URI.

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## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/http_request_timeout/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [5.1.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/5.1.0/) | The `$url` parameter was added. | 
| [2.7.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/2.7.0/) | Introduced. |

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