Jd wrote: > Hi > I have a multi-threaded application. For certain operations to the > server, I would like to explicitly set timeout so that I get correct > status from the call and not timed out exception. > Does anyone know how to go about doing it ? > The easiest way is to use socket.setdefaulttimeout() to establish a longer timeout period for all sockets, I guess. It's difficult to establish different timeouts for individual sockets when they aren't opened directly by your own code (though each socket does also have a method to set its timeout period).
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