# Read timeouts on POST /users/{userId}/meetings

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/read-timeouts-on-post-users-userid-meetings/4763>\
**Category:** API and Webhooks\
**Created:** [June 25, 2019, 8:21pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/read-timeouts-on-post-users-userid-meetings/4763 "2019-06-25T20:21:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![cyounkins-is](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/0ea827/32.png) [@cyounkins-is](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/cyounkins-is)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 8:21pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/read-timeouts-on-post-users-userid-meetings/4763/1 "2019-06-25T20:21:15Z")

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We’ve had timeouts after 10 seconds when reading the response from the zoom API when making a request like `POST /users/{userId}/meetings` with a simple JSON body:

```auto
{
"settings": {"join_before_host": true}, 
"topic": "foobar", 
"type": 3
}

```

Are zoom engineers aware of responses taking 10+ seconds for this endpoint? Is it something with the user’s account. Is there a way we can mitigate it? We’ve increased the timeout to 25+ seconds but that’s a very long time for the API to respond.

Thanks!  
Craig

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**Author:** ![ojus.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/ojus.zoom/32/734_2.png) [@ojus.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/ojus.zoom)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 12:44am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/read-timeouts-on-post-users-userid-meetings/4763/2 "2019-06-26T00:44:24Z")

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Hi Craig,

Welcome to the Zoom Developer Community. We are happy to help.

Can you please send us some timestamps at [developersupport@zoom.us](mailto:developersupport@zoom.us)? I will forward those to our engineering team, so that we can provide you with specific recommendations ?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![ojus.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/ojus.zoom/32/734_2.png) [@ojus.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/ojus.zoom)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 4:32pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/read-timeouts-on-post-users-userid-meetings/4763/3 "2019-06-27T16:32:42Z")

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Hi,

We did experience some issues on the 24th of June but were resolved since then. Please let me know if you are still facing these issues.

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**Author:** ![DeveloperBot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/developerbot/32/12632_2.png) [@DeveloperBot](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/DeveloperBot)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 6:31pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/read-timeouts-on-post-users-userid-meetings/4763/4 "2020-08-21T18:31:03Z")

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