Http connection timeout on Android not working

Question

I\'m writing an application that connects to a webservice and I don\'t want it to wait too long if it can\'t get a connection. I therefore set the connectionTimeout of the h

Answer 1

Try to do it this way:

HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url);
StringEntity se = new StringEntity(envelope,HTTP.UTF_8);
httpPost.setEntity(se);

HttpParams httpParameters = new BasicHttpParams();
// Set the timeout in milliseconds until a connection is established.
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 = 3000;
HttpConnectionParams.setSoTimeout(httpParameters, timeoutSocket);

DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient(httpParameters);
BasicHttpResponse httpResponse = (BasicHttpResponse)  httpClient.execute(httpPost);

HttpEntity entity = httpResponse.getEntity();
return entity;

You then can catch a possible ConnectTimeoutException.