title: Increase azure web app request timeout
body: <p>Is there any way to increase the request timeout for azure web apps?</p>
  
  <p>If I delay the request by anything over 2 minutes or so the request fails with no error (blank page returned) or a vague 503 response.</p>
  
  <pre><code>    public ActionResult Index()
      {
          System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(230000);
          return View();
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have some long running requests that I need to run (uploading large files/large pdf conversion jobs) - is there any way around this? I'd prefer to avoid using VM hosting is possible. I've tried scaling the web app to basic or standard plans, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. </p>