Oleg,

I want to able to limit the time taken for each request no matter what.

Maximum 500 ms waiting for the server to respond.
Maximum 500 ms waiting for the reading of the response from the server.
I thought it was all very simple.
But the way you describe it, I guess its not.

My web application needs to retrieve ads which are shown on  jsp pages.
But I cant wait forever for the ads. This will cause the app to not show the pages at all - the user will have to wait for a long time, anyway. So if I cant retrieve the ads in the specified time (connection timeout and socket timeout) I need to abort the
request and show the page without the ads.

/best regards, Håkan - and thanx for your patience

19 jan 2009 kl. 17.56 skrev Oleg Kalnichevski:

On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 17:38 +0100, hakan.jacobsson wrote:
Oleg,

You said:

Socket timeout is the maximum period of inactivity between two
_consecutive_ read operations.

So, if this is true how can I limit the time taken by the read
operations?

I'll repeat it again. SO_TIMEOUT is a pretty standard TCP/IP concept.
This value represents the maximum period of inactivity between two
consecutive read operations on a TCP/IP socket, which in Java terms
means the maximum period of time Socket#read method can remain blocked
waiting for data.

For example, it SO_TIMEOUT is set to 1000 ms, and the remote host sends
a packet every 999 ms, the socket will NEVER time out.


I need to be able to set a timeout which aborts the request under any
circumstance.

What circumstances? What is it that you are trying to do? Make sure the
socket does not block indefinitely? Limit the total request execution
time?

Is this not possible with HttpClient?


WHAT IS IT EXACTLY that you want to achieve?

Oleg

/best regards, Håkan


If all depends what you want to achieve.



19 jan 2009 kl. 17.21 skrev Chad La Joie:

I agree, that's why I said it would help if it were documented
which (if
any) of those were the actual behavior.

Oleg Kalnichevski wrote:
Guessing does not always help.

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