If the configured timeout has no effect (which is a known bug), then you should close the connection handle, which will force the associated function to fail, thereby returning control to your program. Microsoft article Q224318 "How to control connection timeout value by creating second thread," describes how to do that. (You need a separate thread because the other thread is stuck waiting for InternetReadFile to return.).
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