Re: [httpClient] Timeout not being respected

[Rodrigo Lima <ac...@gmail.com>]

You need adjust ethernet timeout in your SO.


2009/7/31 Amit Shinde <am...@amicontech.com>

> Hello Everyone,
>       I am using the UPS external 'upsRateEstimate' service to get shipping
> estimates and we all know that the service does not work consistently every
> time. Sometimes the http request does not respond and the transaction times
> out in exactly 2 minutes. I used 'shipment.ups.connect.timeout' property but
> it does not seem to work. If I understand correctly, this property should
> break the connection if server takes too long to respond. After digging
> deeper in HttpClient and URLConnector class, it looks like the connection
> thread does not get interrupted with the set timeout.
>
>      I tested this pretty comprehensively. Heres what I did. I ran 2 ofbiz
> instances locally (client at 8080 and server at 8082 ) and changed the UPS
> URL of client to point to http://localhost:8082:/xyz/control/testTimeout.
> We have a request handler for testTimeout inside which we make the thread to
> sleep for a period much longer than the set timeout value to replicate the
> actual scenario. The timeout did not seem to work at all. Looks like the
> URLConnectorThread and openConnection logic might not be working.
>
>      I might be completely wrong but the only way I could get this to work
> is by setting read timeout of URLConnection by calling setReadTimeout method
> explicitly.
>
>      Any thoughts or inputs are appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Amit Shinde
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