Android: AndroidHttpClient - how to set timeout?

Question

I have followed the instructions of kuester2000's answer, but my timeout settings don't seem to work.

try
{
    int timeout = 3000;
    URL myURL = //some valid URL

    AndroidHttpClient = AndroidHttpClient.newInstance("name");
    HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(myURL.toExternalForm());

    HttpParams httpParams = new BasicHttpParams();
    HttpConnectionParams.setConnectionTimeout(httpParams, timeout);
    HttpConnectionParams.setSoTimeout(httpParams, timeout);

    HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpGet);

    //...
}
catch (SocketTimeoutException e)
{
    e.printStackTrace();
}
catch (ConnectTimeoutException e)
{
    e.printStackTrace();
}
catch (IOException e)
{
    e.printStackTrace();
}
//...

However, the timeout value doesn't change anything.

In the answer I linked, it also says:

The connection timeout throws "java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Socket is not connected" and the socket timeout "java.net.SocketTimeoutException: The operation timed out".

But I get neither. Instead I get "org.apache.http.conn.ConnectTimeoutException: Connect to ... timed out"

so can anybody help me? where is the mistake?

Answer 1

You do not use the httpParams params, they must be provided to the HTTPClient. So it won't work like this. In the anwer you linked, the order is correct! Try the following order: Create the Params first and supply them to the HTTPClient.

HttpParams httpParameters = new BasicHttpParams();
HttpConnectionParams.setConnectionTimeout(httpParameters, 5000);
HttpConnectionParams.setSoTimeout(httpParameters, 10000);

HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient(httpParameters);
HttpGet request = new HttpGet(url);

HttpResponse response = client.execute(request);

Answer 2

I did miss to attach the params to my http request, but the proper way to do this in my example is

httpGet.setParams(httpParams);

before calling httpClient.execute(httpGet).

Just added that line and it worked fine.