How to set up timeout to connection using socket class in java?

Question

Socket: Connect spends 2 minutes looking for IP before it timesOut. I want to reduce that time to 10-15 seconds.

For connection I am using following code....

public static boolean available (String host, String port){
    try {
          Socket s = new Socket (host, port);
          return true;
       }
    catch (Exception e) {
       return false;
    }
}

How do I minimize timeout time to 10-15 seconds instead of 2 minutes? Is there any method to do that or any other alternate way?

@Neel If you know it then only answer.....

Vishwas
– Vishwas

2014-01-03 10:46:17 +00:00
Commented Jan 3, 2014 at 10:46 — Vishwas
– Vishwas, Commented Jan 3, 2014 at 10:46

Jamel ESSOUSSI · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-03 10:22:41Z

2

You don't set a timeout for the socket, you set a timeout for the operations you perform on that socket.

For example socket.connect(otherAddress, timeout)

Or socket.setSoTimeout(timeout) for setting a timeout on read() operations.

See: http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/net/Socket.html

answered Jan 3, 2014 at 10:22

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