Re: Setting timeout in HttpURLConnection

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Ronen Lazar wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> How can I control (set) the value of the blocking timeout for a HTTP request
> in HttpURLConnection?
> I'm looking for the effect similar to Socket.setSoTimeout (...).
>
> I tried to derive from the HttpURLConnection object and implement my own
> method like:
>
> 	public void setTimeout (int ms)
> 	{
> 		HttpManager.getManager().setTimeout (ms);
> 	}
>
> but it doesn't seem to do the job.

If you are using HttpManager, you have setTimeout(), which sets the
timeout on the socket, and setRequestTimeout(), a timeout on the whole
transaction.
See http://jigsaw.w3.org/Doc/Programmer/api/org/w3c/www/protocol/http/HttpManager.html#setTimeout(int)
Regards,

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