How to handle 'connection has timed out' in Selenium Webdriver

Question

For Ex, I am accessing url in selenium Webdriver, its showing as 'connection has timed out' but my code keep on executes & trying to find mail-Id, its not throwing any exception and showing error as

'Unable to locate element:{"method":"id","selector":"hotel_dest"}'

driver.get("http://192.168.0.151/holidaysonclick/");  
driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(20, TimeUnit.SECONDS);   
driver.findElement(By.id("mail")).clear();

How to handle this Issue,

Answer 1

You should try to increase the timeout to ensure that the objects are available to selenium to work.
If you want to handle the error, better include this code in @BeforeTest or @BeforeSuite annotation which ensure the entire test suite will not run if this fails.
You can also use try/catch to catch the error and throw exception. Choose whatever is best solution in your case