Socket time out after two minutes although set to more than two mintues

Question

following this post, I have the same problem and I managed to reproduce it with a simple test cast. I hope that you will be able to help me.

Let me explain, I am sending messages using sockets. Everything is working great as long as I set the so_timeout to be less than two minutes. But if I set it to be more than two minutes the socket is timed out after two minutes. So, if I set the so_timeout to be 10 seconds the socket will be timed out after 10 seconds, but if I set it to be 180 seconds the socket will be timed out after 120 seconds.

Here is a test case:

import java.io.*;
import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
import java.net.ServerSocket;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.net.SocketTimeoutException;

/**
 *
 */
public class TestSocket1 {

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

    ServerSocket serverSocket = new ServerSocket();

    serverSocket.setReuseAddress(true);
    serverSocket.bind(new InetSocketAddress(1111), 0);
    serverSocket.setSoTimeout(1000);
    Socket socket = null;

    boolean send = true;

    while (send) {
        try {
            socket = serverSocket.accept();
            Thread.sleep(100);
            String messageReceived = readFromSocket(socket);

            System.out.println(messageReceived);

            if (send) {
                send = false;

                Thread.sleep(150000); // Causing 2.5 minutes delay
                // Sending message

                BufferedWriter wr = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(socket.getOutputStream(), "UTF8"));
                PrintWriter printWriter = new PrintWriter(wr, true);

                String output = "Hello Back";

                printWriter.println(output);
                printWriter.flush();
                socket.shutdownOutput();

            }

        }
        catch (SocketTimeoutException ie) {
        }
        catch (Exception e) {
        }
        finally {
            if (socket != null) {
                socket.close();
            }
        }
    }


}

protected static String readFromSocket(Socket socket) throws IOException {
    StringBuilder messageReceived = new StringBuilder();
    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream(), "UTF-8"));

    String line = br.readLine();

    messageReceived.append(line);

    socket.shutdownInput();

    return messageReceived.toString();
}


}

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import java.io.*;
import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.net.SocketAddress;

/**
 *
 */
public class TestSocket2 {

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

    Socket socket = new Socket();
    socket.setKeepAlive(true);
    socket.setReuseAddress(true);
    socket.setTcpNoDelay(true);
    socket.setSoTimeout(180000); // Should wait 3 minutes before throwing time out exception - Actually throwing after 2 minutes

    SocketAddress socketAddress = new InetSocketAddress(1111);

    socket.connect(socketAddress, 5000);

    // Sending message

    BufferedWriter wr = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(socket.getOutputStream(), "UTF8"));
    PrintWriter printWriter = new PrintWriter(wr, true);

    String output = "Hello There";

    printWriter.println(output);
    printWriter.flush();
    socket.shutdownOutput();

    String messageReceived = readFromSocket(socket);

    System.out.println(messageReceived);

}

protected static String readFromSocket(Socket socket) throws IOException {
    StringBuilder messageReceived = new StringBuilder();
    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream(), "UTF-8"));

    String line = br.readLine();

    messageReceived.append(line);

    socket.shutdownInput();

    return messageReceived.toString();
}


}

You should run the TestSocket1 class first and then TestSocket2.

I am struggling with this problem for a long time and any help will be appreciated. Thank you.

• EDIT

So I removed the dependency on SO_TimeOut and took @Nick suggestion in this post to check the available input stream before reading it. But now the problem is that after two minutes the available bytes always return 0 although the input was written to the stream. So I still have the same problem.

Answer 1

You can't increase the connect timeout beyond the platform default, which is about a minute. You can only decrease it. Trying to increase it doesn't actually make sense. What are you trying to accomplish?