ESP32 WROVER- How do you force a SEND FAIL

[Ryno01]

Good day all,

How do I force the ESP32-WROVER module to display a SEND FAIL after not receiving a message string after the >. The problem I am having is that in my application I don't want to close the TCP connection within a short time period, hence I don't want to set the AT+CIPSTO command to a small time period. The code that performs all the necessary setups to establish a TCP connection, etc work perfectly but sometimes my application does not "see" the > response from the ESP32 after the AT+CIPSEND command and will wait for data for a very long time period.

Is there a way to force the ESP32 module to stop waiting for data and display the SEND FAIL error message without using the AT+CIPSTO timeout command?

Thank you for any feedback.