Android UnknownHostException : is there a way to set timeout?

Question

When I connect to my webservice to retreive data, the phone is sometimes getting disconnected, DNS messed up, etc. Then I get an UnknownHostException which is perfectly fine.

What I want to do is to set a timeout when looking for the hostName here:

 response = httpclient.execute(httpget); 

I have already set :

HttpConnectionParams.setConnectionTimeout(httpParameters,timeoutConnection); HttpConnectionParams.setSoTimeout(httpParameters, timeoutSocket); 

but they don't seem to apply for HostLookUp. Is there any way to set the timeout at host lookup?

Edit
I just found that the user cannot modify the timeout of nslookup in this post on the hc-dev mailing list.

I will have to manually throw a timeout exception from a timer at that point.

Answer 1

First of all HttpParams httpParams = new BasicHttpParams() is depricated, use this HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();

when your parameters size greater than 2mb then server give time out responce.

Check your params size and let me know.