How to specify Http Request timeout parameter on Java servlet container

Question

I\'m trying to understand where I can configure a request timeout for all requests arriving to a servlet of mine (or all of my servlets)? Is that, as I think, a container pr

Answer 1

Even though you can't control client timeout, you can make server very impatient :) For example, on Tomcat, you can do this in your connector,

This makes server only wait 5 seconds and close the connection. Browser will get a connection closed error. You can treat it the same as timeout in client.

Of course, this only works if the timeout is caused by the server, not connectivity issues between browser and server.