On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 14:36 -0700, KARR, DAVID (ATTSI) wrote: > I'm looking at a situation where I'm setting the "SoTimeout" in > HttpClientParams to 90000 (90 seconds). This makes a call to a web > service that under certain circumstances takes quite a while to > complete, and sometimes times out. In fact, the data in my log file > indicates that I often get start-to-return intervals of just about 120 > seconds. If the back-end server is still working on the request after > 90 seconds, will HttpClient be able to cause the request to abort? >
David, The setting is not ignored, rather your expectation is wrong. The socket timeout is the maximum period of inactivity between two _consecutive_ data transmissions. As long as the server sends a packet every 90 seconds the request will not time out. Hope this clarifies things a little Oleg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
