RE: httpclient hangs indefinately

[JEvans]

Incidentally, it doesn't actually hang indefinately, for me it looks like it
times out after about 3 minutes and 12 seconds.  

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Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 1:24 PM
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Subject: RE: httpclient hangs indefinately


Well, since the con.open() method creates a new Socket object, it is subject
to the behavior of the Socket class.  Unfortunately, at least as of 1.3,
attempting to create a new Socket to a host/port combo that does not answer
blocks indefinately (or at least for a very long time), this can't be
avoided directly.  (It would be really nice if the JDK provided a Socket
constructor that took a timeout value to pass to the underlying OS).  The
three ways I can think of to avoid it off hand are:

        1. Implement a timeout mechanism outside of HttpClient with a
seperate thread that interrupts the connection attempts.
        2. Implement a Socket object in the HttpClient framework that uses
this same sort of mechanism but hides the details behind the API
        3. Use the 1.4 JDK and upgrade everything to use the new channels
API in non-blocking mode.

I wish there were a cleaner way.  If anyone knows of one I'd love to hear
it.

-
John

-----Original Message-----
From: Allen, Michael B (RSCH) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 10:50 PM
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Subject: httpclient hangs indefinately


If I just use a simple test program like below and try to connect to certain
IP addresses that
are routable but don't have anything listing at the other end (returns
nothing, dead air), the
client hangs indefinately. Can anyone think of a solution to this problem?

Thanks,
Mike

import org.apache.commons.httpclient.*;

public class Test {

        public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception {
                HttpConnection con = new HttpConnection( argv[0],
Integer.parseInt( argv[1] ));
                con.open();
                con.printLine( "GET /index.html HTTP/1.0" );
                con.printLine();
                String s;
                while(( s = con.readLine() ) != null ) {
                        System.out.println( s );
                }
        }
}


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