# Http\_timeout in slack

**URL:** <https://forum.rasa.com/t/http-timeout-in-slack/35450>\
**Category:** Rasa Open Source\
**Created:** [October 5, 2020, 5:06am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/http-timeout-in-slack/35450 "2020-10-05T05:06:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 3:09am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/http-timeout-in-slack/35450/3 "2020-10-08T03:09:13Z")

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Thanks for the reply Stephens. I have a couple of questions:

I tried to send a response **dispatcher.utter\_message(“Please wait while we fetch the data…”)** to the slack bot but then when it came to the part where I am fetching from the background, it gave me the same error.

Also, how external event will solve the problem of slack’s 3-second timeout issue?

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