HttpURLConnection timeout?

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Jack - 15 Apr 2004 00:59 GMT

Hi,

Is it possible to set a timeout when opening a connection to an
HttpURLConnection?

For example, is it possible to make the connection call and limit it to 5
seconds before a response is generated?

That is, I don't want to have to wait for the "default" timeout.

Thanks for any info.

Jack

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Dave Ockwell-Jenner - 16 Apr 2004 20:05 GMT

> Hi,
>
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> That is, I don't want to have to wait for the "default" timeout.

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You can't do this using Sun's classes unless you use a "private"
property setting. Unfortunately, the setting is not guaranteed to
remain the same (or remain at all).

I've just been working on a similar task and used the
Commons-HTTPClient[1] from Apache. It allows you to specify both a
connection timeout and also a timeout when reading the response. It
works superbly!

[1] http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/

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Adam P. Jenkins - 13 Apr 2005 02:59 GMT

>> Hi,
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> [1] http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/

Actually Sun has added this in Java 1.5. See the java.net.URLConnection
setConnectionTimeout() and setReadTimeout() methods. If you need
to use an earlier version of Java then the Jakarta HTTPClient package
works great.

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