Error: -27751: Step download timeout (120 seconds) has expired

Error: -27751: Step download timeout 120 seconds has expired downloading resource,While working with HTTP/HTML protocols or web applications you will face some problems while executing the test scripts in loadrunner - VUGen component.The following error message gives you when web_set_url(url name) downloading the required resources which could be as follow,those are declare or recorded in EXTRARES as below

Error: -27751: Step download timeout 120 seconds has expired

web_url("bigbazaar", 
 "URL=http://wikishown.com/", 
 "Resource=0", 
 "RecContentType=text/html", 
 "Referer=", 
 "Snapshot=t8.inf", 
 "Mode=HTML", 
 EXTRARES, 
 "Url=images/bb_h_img2.jpg", ENDITEM, 
 "Url=images/bb_h_img1.jpg", ENDITEM, 
 "Url=images/bb_h_img3.jpg", ENDITEM, 
 "Url=images/loadingAnimation.gif", ENDITEM, 
 "Url=../favicon.ico", "Referer=", ENDITEM, 
 LAST);

In order to execute web_url() successfully Virtual User generator first downloads EXTRARES and it start execute the web_url() function ,in case downloading time completed as per setting then you will error message in reply log as

Error: -27751: Step download timeout (120 seconds) has expired when downloading resource

Resource downloading default time is 120 seconds,you can change resource downloading settings in Run time settings,please follow below steps to change resource
downloading time settings.

STEP 1 : Open Run Time Settings.
STEP 2 : Go to Internet Protocol - Preferences.

[caption id="attachment_1020" align="aligncenter" width="561"] Preferences Options[/caption]

STEP 3 : Click on Options button on preferences window.
STEP 4 : Just scroll down to General - Step Download Timeout (secs) here default time is 120 seconds.You can change it to your desired value.
STEP 5 :Click on OK and again Click on OK button

In case you want to set timeout value in script itself then you can use web_set_timeout() function to increase time limit in script for downloading resources as below

web_set_timeout()

The function which works to wait until given time to CONNECT,RECEIVE OR STEP to complete particular action.

web_set_timeout("STEP","60");

After setting the time increased limit,now try to run your script in VUGen ,you will not face any problems while downloading the resources and test script will run successfully with out any problem.Please provide your valuable comments on this posts, so that i will know that you got solution.

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