That's strange, because even when I do not set anything, the
connection times out for about 1 minute, throwing a
HttpConnection.ConnectionTimeoutException. Setting explicitly to 0 will
never timeout ? 

Thank you for the answer.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ortwin Gl�ck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 3:26 AM
To: Commons HttpClient Project
Subject: Re: Timeout in HTTP


Michael Becke wrote:
> I am assuming you are talking about SO_TIMEOUT set via 
> HttpClient.setTimeout().  This is the amount of time to wait when 
> reading on an open socket.  This defaults to 0 which means that it will 
> wait forever.

"forever" means "until the server is bored and closes the connection" :-)


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