Timeouts and redirects

The timeout sets how long Nouto waits for the server before it stops a request. The redirect settings control whether Nouto follows 3xx responses and how many it follows. Set defaults for all requests in Settings > Network, and override them for one request on its Settings tab.

Request timeout

To set the timeout for one request:

1. Open the request and select the Settings tab.
2. Under Timeout, enter a value in Request timeout, in milliseconds.

To change the default for all requests, open Nouto’s settings with the gear icon, select Network, and enter Default Request Timeout.

Value	Behavior
Empty	Uses the default from Settings > Network, or 30 seconds if that’s empty too
0	No timeout. In the desktop app, 0 sets a limit of 24 hours.
5000	5 seconds
600000	10 minutes, the largest value Nouto accepts

If the server doesn’t respond in time, the request fails with a timeout error.

Raise the timeout for slow operations such as large uploads, report generation, or long polling. Lower it for health checks, where a slow answer already means the service has a problem.

Redirects

Nouto follows 3xx redirects by default. To change this for one request:

1. Open the request and select the Settings tab.
2. Under Redirects, turn Follow redirects on or off.
3. If redirects are on, enter Max redirects, from 1 to 100.

To change the default for all requests, use Follow Redirects and Max Redirects in Settings > Network.

Setting	Default
Follow redirects	On
Max redirects	10 in the desktop app, 5 in the VS Code extension

When a response is still a redirect after the maximum number of hops, the VS Code extension shows that last redirect response. The desktop app fails the request with Maximum number of redirects (N) exceeded.

After Nouto follows one or more redirects, the response panel shows a Redirects tab with each hop. See Response viewer.

Method on the redirected request

Some redirect status codes change the method of the next request:

Status	Method Nouto uses for the next request
301 Moved Permanently, 302 Found	GET, unless the original method was GET or HEAD. The body is dropped.
303 See Other	GET. The body is dropped.
307 Temporary Redirect, 308 Permanent Redirect	The original method

When to turn off redirects

With Follow redirects off, Nouto shows the 3xx response itself, including its Location header. Use this to check that your API returns the right redirect status and target, or to see where a redirect points before anything follows it, for example when you test for open redirects.

Saved settings

Nouto saves the per-request values with the request, for example:

{
  "timeout": 60000,
  "maxRedirects": 5
}

When you turn redirects off, Nouto saves "followRedirects": false and drops maxRedirects. When a field is missing, Nouto uses the default from Settings > Network, then the built-in default.