Re: http bug

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Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.spamfilter@virtualinfinity.net>

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Date:

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:22:37 -0800

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Lothar Kimmeringer wrote:

Roedy Green wrote:

I have noticed a program that has worked for a long time now just
freezes as if it had a infinite timeout on HTTP GETs. This started
happening with JDK 1,6.0_18. Has anyone else noticed this?

Until 1.5. AFAIR there was no setting in HttpUrlConnection
allowing you to reduce the timeout to something lower than
infinity, forcing you to do some workarounds to get a timeout
when connecting or working with Sockets created with
HttpUrlConnection (I assume you are talking about HttpUrlConnection).

Assuming specific timeout-settings is always a bad idea, so you
should set a timeout for yourself instead of hoping that the
default behavior of a VM keeps the same all time.

Regards, Lothar

I often find the standard HttpUrlConnection lacking, and usually go with
apache commons HttpClient instead. You have more control of the
process, if you care, but it also "works" out-of-the-box if you don't
want to configure it as much.

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