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Anyone know how to introduce a 'delay' in suitescript?  I've got try/catch retry logic, but I want to intro a delay before the retry.  Server side of course

most basic approach is to do something like:
```while (Date.now() &lt; someNumber) {}```

if for some terrible reason you hit instruction count limits you need to be more creative

i know of making a https request to a server that returns after a period of time

Ya, I'm already pushing execution limits.  I like the idea of an external http call to slow me down. Is there a delay service I can use?

you can probably make one in netsuite using a suitelet if you want

While this can work
```while (Date.now() &lt; someNumber) {}```
Spinlocking the shared server is probably unkind to its other tenants

I like the idea of using NetSuite's own slowness in a suitelet as a delay though :joy:

One last question.  how long before https request times out?

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&gt; I like the idea of using NetSuite's own slowness in a suitelet as a delay though :joy: