Killing a connection in Java after a specified amount of time

Question

So basically I'm writing a program which outputs a website. The website should be written directly onto the server.

I am using this code to write to the server:

URL  url = new URL("ftp://usr:pw@ftp.site.com/test/login.php;type=i");
    URLConnection urlc = url.openConnection();
    OutputStream os = urlc.getOutputStream(); // To upload
    OutputStream buffer = new BufferedOutputStream(os);
    PrintStream output = new PrintStream(buffer);
    output.print(sb);

But sometimes my program runs and never terminates, so I'm guessing the connection is not being successful. '

Could I create a timeout in the case that this occurs? ie like 30 seconds, the connection would be automatically terminated so that the program could terminate.

Thanks in advance!

URL con time out http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6529733/how-to-use-urlconnection-timeout — SatyaTNV, Jul 13 '15 at 09:34

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 13 '15 at 09:31

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con.setConnectTimeout(5000);//5 seconds
con.setReadTimeout(5000);

answered Jul 13 '15 at 09:31

Anant Laxmikant Bobde

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Kanagaraj M · Answer 2 · 2015-07-13T09:46:59.300

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URLConnection has a setConnectTimeout method. By using this method you can set the time:

urlc.setConnectTimeout(30); // Time is in milliseconds
urlc.setReadTimeout(30);

edited Jul 13 '15 at 09:46

answered Jul 13 '15 at 09:32

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Are you sure the parameters are not in milliseconds :) 30 is too low and throws an exception instantly. Setting to 5000ms (ie 5s), as the post below shows works perfectly though. – malteser Jul 13 '15 at 09:44
Thanks for your help though! – malteser Jul 13 '15 at 09:44
indeed, I thought you wrote 30 since i wrote 30 seconds in my question, so I was not sure – malteser Jul 13 '15 at 09:47

Killing a connection in Java after a specified amount of time

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