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Subject: Re: connect timeout
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On Friday, February 15, 2013 7:48:11 AM UTC-6, Arne Vajhoej wrote:
> On 2/14/2013 2:22 PM, bob smith wrote:
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> > Is there any way to specify the connection timeout for a java.net.Socket?
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> >
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> > I might want something like this to throw a ConnectException within 10 seconds:
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> >
> 
> > Socket socket = new Socket(ip_address, 80);
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> 
> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/net/properties.html
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> 
> explains how to change default connect and read timeout for SUN/Oracle
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> implementation.
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> 
> Arne

Thanks.

BTW, do you know what that means that the default is -1?

sun.net.client.defaultConnectTimeout (default: -1)
sun.net.client.defaultReadTimeout (default: -1)