KSOAP never timeout

Question

I\'m using ksoap2 2.5.4 (on Android 2.2) which supports timeout. I\'m using Apache 2.2.16 to handle my requests. Everything works fine, but when I shutdown my Apache (or dis

Answer 1

I'm having the same problem running ksoap2-android-assembly-2.5.6-jar-with-dependencies. I would have assumed the ksoap timeout value that appears on HttpTransportSE would be equivalent to what you can accomplish using org.apache.http.client.HttpClient with connection timeout and socket timeout pamameters:

HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient(); HttpParams params = client.getParams(); HttpConnectionParams.setConnectionTimeout(params, CONNECTION_TIMEOUT); HttpConnectionParams.setSoTimeout(params, SOCKET_TIMEOUT);

I finally get a SocketException "the operation timed out" after ~3 minutes no matter what value I put in the timout parameter on HttpTransportSE. My server is running, its just not responding to the request.