PowerShell: How can I determine if Invoke-WebRequest has timed out?

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I need to produce some output when Invoke-WebRequest exceeds the time limit set by the -TimeoutSec parameter. How can I build an If condition that runs when this is the case?

In other words; what goes in place of ????? in the example below?:

Try {
  Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $Uri -contentType "application/json"
   -Method Post -Headers $Headers -Body $Body -TimeoutSec 8
}
Catch {
 If (?????) {
    Write-Host "the request timed out..."
  }
}
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1 Answers

In Windows PowerShell, the exception thrown will be a [System.Net.WebException] with the Status field set to Timeout:

try{
  Invoke-WebRequest 'http://hostname.fqdn/really/slow/endpoint/' -TimeoutSec 3 -UseBasicParsing
}
catch [System.Net.WebException] {
  if($_.Exception.Status -eq 'Timeout'){
    # the request timed out
  }
  # something else went wrong during the web request
}
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