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 probably either/both:
1) Don't read anything from connection
2) Don't catch & handle the exception properly

As mentioned here, use logic similar to this:

int TIMEOUT_VALUE = 1000;
try {
    URL testUrl = new URL("http://google.com");
    StringBuilder answer = new StringBuilder(100000);

    long start = System.nanoTime();

    URLConnection testConnection = testUrl.openConnection();
    testConnection.setConnectTimeout(TIMEOUT_VALUE);
    testConnection.setReadTimeout(TIMEOUT_VALUE);
    BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(testConnection.getInputStream()));
    String inputLine;

    while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
        answer.append(inputLine);
        answer.append("\n");
    }
    in.close();

    long elapsed = System.nanoTime() - start;
    System.out.println("Elapsed (ms): " + elapsed / 1000000);
    System.out.println("Answer:");
    System.out.println(answer);
} catch (SocketTimeoutException e) {
    System.out.println("More than " + TIMEOUT_VALUE + " elapsed.");
}