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Re: connect timeout

From	"John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: connect timeout
Date	2013-02-16 13:21 -0500
Organization	The Wasteland
Message-ID	<nospam-1C6134.13211616022013@news.aioe.org> (permalink)
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In article <511e6aed$0$282$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>,
 Arne Vajhoej <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:

> On 2/15/2013 11:07 AM, mike7411@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Friday, February 15, 2013 7:48:11 AM UTC-6, Arne Vajhoej wrote:
> >> On 2/14/2013 2:22 PM, bob smith wrote:
> >>> Is there any way to specify the connection timeout for a 
> >>> java.net.Socket? I might want something like this to throw a 
> >>> ConnectException within 10 seconds:
> >>> Socket socket = new Socket(ip_address, 80);
> >> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/net/properties.html
> >> explains how to change default connect and read timeout for 
> >> SUN/Oracle implementation.
> > BTW, do you know what that means that the default is -1?
> >
> > sun.net.client.defaultConnectTimeout (default: -1)
> > sun.net.client.defaultReadTimeout (default: -1)
> 
> I assume -1 means not set.

This would comport with how -1 is used elsewhere in the cited document
to mean "forever," perhaps in the sense of "no specified timeout."

-- 
John B. Matthews
trashgod at gmail dot com
<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>

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connect timeout bob smith <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2013-02-14 11:22 -0800
  Re: connect timeout Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-02-14 12:38 -0800
  Re: connect timeout Arne Vajhoej <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-02-15 08:48 -0500
    Re: connect timeout Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-02-15 07:21 -0800
    Re: connect timeout mike7411@gmail.com - 2013-02-15 08:07 -0800
      Re: connect timeout Arne Vajhoej <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-02-15 12:05 -0500
        Re: connect timeout "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-02-16 13:21 -0500

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