2 Answers

• Thomas

  Yes, setTimeout executes a code snippet or a function after specified delay. Hence, what you are observing is expected behaviour.

  I think what you are really looking for is setInterval:

  setInterval takes 2 arguments: function and timeout in milliseconds
  for how often the function should be executed until cancelled and
  returns a timer handle that can be used to cancel a timer with
  clearInterval.
  

  See Titanium's built-in timers for this extract.

• Thanks for the response Hal. I understand the setTimeout / setIntraval functions. I am actually referring to the HTTPClient setTimeout as outlined in the
  Mobile API Docs.