HeaderWaitTimeout

The HeaderWaitTimeout property specifies the amount of time (in seconds) the server waits for all HTTP headers for the request (indicated by a double carriage return) to be received before disconnecting the client. The purpose of this property is to help prevent a common variant of the Denial of Service (DoS) attack that attempts to max out connection limits and keep those connections connected.

IIS 6.0: Use this property in conjunction with ConnectionTimeout and MinFileBytesPerSec instead of ServerListenTimeout for Web service nodes.

Schema Attributes

Configurable Locations

You can configure this property at the following locations in the IIS metabase.

Flags

There are no flags for this property.

Requirements

Server: Requires or Windows Server 2003.

Product: IIS

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