How to set timeout on client socket connection?

Question

I am trying to set the timeout of a connection on the client socket in java. I have set a default connect timeout to 2000, i.e:

this.socket.connect(this.soc         


        

Answer 1

You can even try for :

Socket client=new Socket();   
client.connect(new InetSocketAddress(hostip,port_num),connection_time_out);