java - HttpURLConnection setConnectTimeout() has no effect

Question

I'm connecting to a simple RSS feed using HTTPUrlConnection. It works perfectly. I'd like to add a timeout to the connection since I don't want my app hanging in the event of a bad connection or whatever. This is the code I use and the setConnectTimeout method doesn't have any effect whatsoever.

        HttpURLConnection http = (HttpURLConnection) mURL.openConnection();
        http.setConnectTimeout(15000); //timeout after 15 seconds
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If it helps I'm developing on android.

Answer 1

You should try to set the read timeout as well (http.setReadTimeout()). Oftentimes, a web server will happily accept your connection, but it might be slow in actually responding to the request.