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 even

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.