For the CFHTTP timeout, the docs mention a server value that can be set, but it doesn't specify which one. https://docs.lucee.org/reference/tags/http.html Is it just the main request timeout value that everything uses?

If it helps, Lucee looks at three timeouts if they exist... A timeout set on the URL in the browser A timeout set in the Lucee Admin (request timeout) A timeout set with the timeout attribute of the CFHTTP statement If a URL timeout is set, that should override the Lucee Administrator request timeout. If both a URL timeout and an attribute timeout are set, Lucee takes the lower of the two.

Note there is a setting in Lucee Admin, Settings - Request (in v5,4.3.16 at least) that must be enabled for the URL timeout parameter to be obeyed.

if the CFHTTP timeout is the same as the regular request timeout, then that won't work for what are looking for. We can just add the timeout to the CFHTTP call

Yeah, makes sense.