How to set HttpResponse timeout for Android in Java

In my example, two timeouts are set. The connection timeout throws java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Socket is not connected and the socket timeout java.net.SocketTimeoutException: The operation timed out.

HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(url);HttpParams httpParameters = new BasicHttpParams();// Set the timeout in milliseconds until a connection is established.// The default value is zero, that means the timeout is not used. int timeoutConnection = 3000;HttpConnectionParams.setConnectionTimeout(httpParameters, timeoutConnection);// Set the default socket timeout (SO_TIMEOUT) // in milliseconds which is the timeout for waiting for data.int timeoutSocket = 5000;HttpConnectionParams.setSoTimeout(httpParameters, timeoutSocket);DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient(httpParameters);HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpGet);

If you want to set the Parameters of any existing HTTPClient (e.g. DefaultHttpClient or AndroidHttpClient) you can use the function setParams().

httpClient.setParams(httpParameters);

To set settings on the client:

AndroidHttpClient client = AndroidHttpClient.newInstance("Awesome User Agent V/1.0");HttpConnectionParams.setConnectionTimeout(client.getParams(), 3000);HttpConnectionParams.setSoTimeout(client.getParams(), 5000);

I've used this successfully on JellyBean, but should also work for older platforms ....

HTH

If your are using Jakarta's http client library then you can do something like:

        HttpClient client = new HttpClient();        client.getParams().setParameter(HttpClientParams.CONNECTION_MANAGER_TIMEOUT, new Long(5000));        client.getParams().setParameter(HttpClientParams.SO_TIMEOUT, new Integer(5000));        GetMethod method = new GetMethod("http://www.yoururl.com");        method.getParams().setParameter(HttpMethodParams.SO_TIMEOUT, new Integer(5000));        method.getParams().setParameter(HttpMethodParams.RETRY_HANDLER,        int statuscode = client.executeMethod(method);