how about URLConnection:setConnectTimeout(int timeout)

Hi everybody,

Now i have something like a solution, but I need some help here. The only thing that doesn't work very well is the setDaemon() method. I don't want to use it because my program can still running if there are other active threads (which is possible) so it will take part of my Internet connection.

I don't know how to avoid this step, because the line that is driving me crazy is

length = connection.getContentLength();               

somehow, the connection is still open even if I kill the thread   t=null
Do you have an idea in order to avoid this problem?

thanks for your help,

Marcelo

public class TimerTemp{
    public Timer timer;
    public int length = -1;
    public boolean isFinished = false;
   
    URLConnection connection;
    Thread t;
    public TimerTemp(final URL urlObject){

        t = new Thread(){
            public void run(){
                try{
                connection = urlObject.openConnection();
                connection.setRequestProperty("User-Agent",
                        "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0;H010818)" );
               
                //Connect to the server                      
                connection.connect();
                length = connection.getContentLength();               
                }catch(IOException e){
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
        };   
        //TODO: Not a good implementation
        t.setDaemon(true);
        t.start();
       
        timer = new Timer(true);
        timer.schedule(new temp(), 2000);       
    }
   
    private class temp extends TimerTask{
        public void run(){
            if(length == -1)
                System.out.println("Time's up");
            else
                System.out.println("length "+length);
           
            timer.cancel();           
            connection = null;
            System.out.println("alive:"+t.isAlive()+t.getState());
            t = null;
            isFinished= true;
        }
    }
}