Hello Nathan, > When exactly does a socket timeout get triggered? > > Is it when the SO_TIMEOUT time has been reached and the first byte of data > has not been received?
Yes. Socket timeouts are per read operation. If you receive a response, even with only a single byte of data, before the timeout hits, then the read operation succeeds. If you want to read more data, you have to call another read operation, which will start a new timeout interval. This is not specific to HTTP, it's general socket behavior: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/net/Socket.html#setSoTimeout(int) hope that helps, Roland --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
