Hi

When I execute  a POST message (JSON) using WebClient the client fails with 
SocketTimeoutException (see exception below).
The same request works fine from Firefox REST client. I think there a problem 
with how I'm executing the POST from WebClient?

Thanks for the help

Sample code:
==========

               ----------------------
        webClient.reset();
        webClient.path(serviceList.get(ASSET) + "/" + id);
        webClient.type(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON);
        webClient.accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON);

        Response response = null;
        try {
            ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
            String postMessage = mapper.writeValueAsString(properties);
            response = webClient.post(postMessage);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw new ValidationException(e);
        }

        if (response.getStatus() == Status.OK.getStatusCode()) {
            return true;
        }
        return retVal;
Here is the server exception:

org.apache.cxf.interceptor.Fault: Could not send Message.
                at 
org.apache.cxf.interceptor.MessageSenderInterceptor$MessageSenderEndingInterceptor.handleMessage(MessageSenderInterceptor.java:64)
                at 
org.apache.cxf.phase.PhaseInterceptorChain.doIntercept(PhaseInterceptorChain.java:243)
                at 
org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.WebClient.doChainedInvocation(WebClient.java:595)
                at 
org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.WebClient.doInvoke(WebClient.java:576)
                at 
org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.WebClient.invoke(WebClient.java:240)
                at 
org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.WebClient.post(WebClient.java:249)
Caused by: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: SocketTimeoutException invoking 
http://......................................................: Read timed out
                at 
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
                at 
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
                at 
sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
                at 
java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
                at 
org.apache.cxf.transport.http.HTTPConduit$WrappedOutputStream.mapException(HTTPConduit.java:2058)
                at 
org.apache.cxf.transport.http.HTTPConduit$WrappedOutputStream.close(HTTPConduit.java:2043)
                at 
org.apache.cxf.transport.AbstractConduit.close(AbstractConduit.java:66)
                at 
org.apache.cxf.transport.http.HTTPConduit.close(HTTPConduit.java:639)
                at 
org.apache.cxf.interceptor.MessageSenderInterceptor$MessageSenderEndingInterceptor.handleMessage(MessageSenderInterceptor.java:62)
                ... 135 more
Caused by: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
                at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(Native Method)
                at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:129)
                at 
java.io.BufferedInputStream.fill(BufferedInputStream.java:218)
                at 
java.io.BufferedInputStream.read1(BufferedInputStream.java:258)
                at 
java.io.BufferedInputStream.read(BufferedInputStream.java:317)
                at 
sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTPHeader(HttpClient.java:687)
                at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTP(HttpClient.java:632)
                at 
sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1195)
                at 
java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(HttpURLConnection.java:379)

Chandru

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