URLConnection timeout..

Emerson

I'm writing a program to check validity of URL links in Java atm. When testing the program it reguaraly gets stuck for long periods checking servers that have no response.. neither 200 nor 404, i.e., non existant servers, before timing out.
I understand there is a method called setConnectTimeout(time) that I can use that takes an int, where time is, being the timeout figure. Can't get it working tho.. mainly because I don't know what to do with it ;-)

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/net/URLConnection.html#setConnectTimeout(int)

Any help greatly appreciated!
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H:\Networks>javac SimpleURLCheck.java
SimpleURLCheck.java:92: cannot resolve symbol
symbol : method setConnectTimeout (int)
location: class SimpleURLCheck
setConnectTimeout(10);
^
1 error

--take 2:

H:\Networks>javac SimpleURLCheck.java
SimpleURLCheck.java:92: cannot resolve symbol
symbol : method setConnectTimeout (int)
location: class java.net.URLConnection
connection.setConnectTimeout(10);
^
1 error

--take 3

H:\Networks>javac SimpleURLCheck.java
SimpleURLCheck.java:92: cannot resolve symbol
symbol : method setConnectTimeout (int)
location: class java.net.URLConnection
URLConnection.setConnectTimeout(10);
^
1 error
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Bellow is a small snippet of the URLConnection part of my code..

URLConnection connection = if (connection instanceof HttpURLConnection)
{
HttpURLConnection httpConnection =
(HttpURLConnection)connection;
httpConnection.connect();
String answer = null;
int response =
httpConnection.getResponseCode();
if (response == 200)//else catch error displays
{
<snip>
}
if(response == 404)
{
}

Magic Monkey

Seeing as the method throws an exception, put it in a try/catch block.

the_funkyguy

in the API there a section called "since", shows when the meathod first came to be. in your link it shows 1.5.0, so..... that meathod only works on java 1.5.0!!!!!

DCU runs 1.4.2, hence it won't work. gonna have to wait like the rest of us

good luck!

Emerson

the_funkyguy wrote:

in the API there a section called "since", shows when the meathod first came to be. in your link it shows 1.5.0, so..... that meathod only works on java 1.5.0!!!!!

DCU runs 1.4.2, hence it won't work. gonna have to wait like the rest of us

good luck!

Anyone know of an alternative connection timeout method then for v1.4.2?

Otherwise I'll have to wait, yea ;P

thanks

GreeBo

You are pretty much screwed Im afraid. Unless you want to write your own URLConnection.
Is there any real reason that you cant move to 1.5?

soiaf

Have a look at the Jakarta Commons component - HttpClient

http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/

Its API is detailed here:

http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/3.0/apidocs/index.html

Sounds like you might be interested in (something like) the setSoTimeout method.