HTTP Timeout in Custom Action

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Created by: Raymond Lynn on 20-01-2011 01:02:14 PM
I've written a custom Action Element in Java that makes an HTTP request and I need to read the data that is returned. It works fine when the web server is available but if it is not it take 21 seconds to timeout. I have tried to modify the timeout in the Java using the code below but nothing seems to work. Any ideas?
 
        HttpParams httpParameters = new BasicHttpParams();
//         Set the timeout in milliseconds until a connection is established.
        HttpConnectionParams.setConnectionTimeout(httpParameters, 300);
//         Set the default socket timeout (SO_TIMEOUT)
//         in milliseconds which is the timeout for waiting for data.
        HttpConnectionParams.setSoTimeout(httpParameters, 300);
 
 
 
 

Subject: RE: HTTP Timeout in Custom Action
Replied by: Joshua Dick on 27-01-2011 01:44:32 PM
Raymond,

It is correct to set both timeouts as you're doing.

How are you using your httpParameters object/where is it getting passed? I was able to use HttpParams from a DefaultHttpClient and the timeout works as expected when using httpcomponents-client-4.0.3:

HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpParams httpParams = httpclient.getParams();
HttpConnectionParams.setConnectionTimeout(httpParams, 300);
HttpConnectionParams.setSoTimeout(httpParams, 300);

try {
    HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet("http://1.2.3.4/");
    ....
    ....

Regards,

Josh

Subject: RE: HTTP Timeout in Custom Action
Replied by: Raymond Lynn on 31-01-2011 11:28:25 AM
Josh,
 
Here is how the http parameters are being used
 
        HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient(httpParameters);
       
        HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet("http://10.34.32.16/");
        String surveyID = "";
        try {
             HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute( httpget );
             if (response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() == 200) {
 
             etc
 
Best Regards
 
Boyd (AKA Raymond)

Subject: RE: HTTP Timeout in Custom Action
Replied by: Feroz Syed on 08-02-2011 06:10:29 AM
Raymond,

Apart from your http timeout settings, make sure that you set http timeout less than the fetchtimeout value. And also I believe you can set the http read timeout (httpsConnection.setReadTimeout(int timeout)) to have complete control over connecting and reading the http response.

Regards,
Feroz