Is there any function available in the framework to handle timeout period when querying a url?

// Now fetch it and decode the JSON
try {
    $response = $query->request()->get()->decodeJson();
} catch( \IPS\Http\Request\Exception $e ) {
    die( "There was a problem fetching the request" );
} catch( \RuntimeException $e ) {
    die( "The response was not valid JSON" );
}

 

yes, $query->request(10)->get()

you put the timeout as a parameter for request()

 

yes, $query->request(10)->get()

you put the timeout as a parameter for request()

Is that ms or seconds?

seconds

 

yes, $query->request(10)->get()

you put the timeout as a parameter for request()

IPS has constants for default values.  Giving board administrators the option, at a constant level, to adjust the IPS parameters site wide if there are server restrictions in place. 

'DEFAULT_REQUEST_TIMEOUT'	=> 10,		// In seconds - default for most external connections
'LONG_REQUEST_TIMEOUT'		=> 30,		// In seconds - used for specific API-based calls where we expect a slightly longer response time

$query->request(\IPS\LONG_REQUEST_TIMEOUT)->get()