I'm creating a default HTTP client using HttpClients.createDefault(), but I'd like to change the default timeout (it seems pretty long, it's been over a minute now and it didn't time out).
Is it possible to change only the timeout of the default client or do I have to build the client from scratch?
I'm using version 4.3.3 of the apache HTTP client.
Why using the default client when timeouts are easily configurable for custom clients? The following code does the job for httpclient 4.3.4.
final RequestConfig requestConfig = RequestConfig.custom()
.setConnectTimeout(CONNTECTION_TIMEOUT_MS)
.setConnectionRequestTimeout(CONNECTION_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS)
.setSocketTimeout(SOCKET_TIMEOUT_MS)
.build();
final CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.custom()
.setDefaultRequestConfig(requestConfig)
.build();
HostConfiguration hostCfg = new HostConfiguration();
HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
HttpMethod method = new GetMethod("... your get query string");
int timeout = 5000; //config your value
method.getParams().setSoTimeout(timeout);
//the call
client.executeMethod(hostCfg, method);
Or you can set the timeout in HttpConnectionParams.
EDIT
With HttpClient = 4.3, from the official documentation:
HttpClientContext clientContext = HttpClientContext.create();
PlainConnectionSocketFactory sf = PlainConnectionSocketFactory.getSocketFactory();
Socket socket = sf.createSocket(clientContext);
int timeout = 1000; // ms <--
HttpHost target = new HttpHost("localhost");
InetSocketAddress remoteAddress = new InetSocketAddress(InetAddress.getByAddress(new byte[] {127,0,0,1}), 80);
sf.connectSocket(timeout, socket, target, remoteAddress, null, clientContext);
setConnectionTimeout, and assigning that config using the method setConfig on the httpget object :)