Re: URLConnection and Timeouts

[Victor Niebla]

I think we should have the sun.net...... properties,
for compatibility. I have started prowling the classpath
code just 2 days ago, but i will be very happy to start helping
(by little steps ;-) ).

> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 09:56:36AM +0100, Victor Niebla wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi all, here it goes i hope it doesnt sound stupid.....
> >
> > I get some code to make a connection to a URL Timeouts work
> > with JDK but not with classpath, the main reason is that
> > at the end on a java.net.Socked this method is called:
> >
> > public void connect(SocketAddress endpoint) throws IOException {
> >   connect(endpoint, 0);
> >   }
> >
> > Where 0 stands for infitelly wait connection.
> > In the JDK if you stablish "sun.net.client.defaultReadTimeout"
> > system property to the value of the Timeout in milisecs, after that
> > time SocketTimeoutException is thrown if not succeded on connecting or 
> > reading.
> >
> > am i rigth, Should it be checked somewhere, is it allready?
> > and if so... where should it be checked?
> >    
>
> I knew there was something missing. The docs say that
> sun.net.client.defaultReadTimeout is implementation-specific to SUNs
> JDK. SHould we support it for compatibility or should we define our own
> (gnu.net.client.defaultReadTimeout) ?.
>
> Michael
>
> Note to myself and any other helper: look through the list of properties
> to see what is implemented and what is not.
>