iOS App - Set Timeout for UIWebView loading

All of the suggested solutions are not ideal. The correct way to handle this is using the timeoutInterval on the NSMutableURLRequest itself:

NSMutableURLRequest* request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://web.site"]];

request.timeoutInterval = 10;

[webview loadRequest:request];

The timeoutInterval is for connection. Once webview connected to the URL, you'll need to start NSTimer and do your own timeout handling. Something like:

// define NSTimer *timer; somewhere in your class

- (void)cancelWeb
{
    NSLog(@"didn't finish loading within 20 sec");
    // do anything error
}

- (void)webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)webView
{
    [timer invalidate];
}

- (void)webViewDidStartLoad:(UIWebView *)webView
{
    // webView connected
    timer = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:20.0 target:self selector:@selector(cancelWeb) userInfo:nil repeats:NO];
}