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

See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/20031077/2609238

The problem might be in the Apache HTTP Client. See HTTPCLIENT-1098. Fixed in 4.1.2.

The timeout exception tries to reverse DNS the IP, for logging purposes. This takes an additional time until the exception is actually fired.