Socket.setSoTimeout(int timeout) will do this on most platforms. Once set, any
blocking read will throw a java.net.SocketTimeoutException (subclass of
java.io.IOException) when the read times out. Like I said, this doesn't work on
*ALL* platforms, but I think Windoze and Linux are supported.
> Question to my own question:
> Is there even such a mechanism in the Socket class to do a timeout on a
> write?
>
> On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 09:30, Warren Little wrote:
> > My tomcat application occasionally hangs trying push data to the
> > postgres backend. When I view the connection to postgres with netstat I
> > see data sitting in the sendQ on the socket.
> > There is a firewall (cisco pix) between the tomcat server and the
> > database server.
> > I was wondering if there is some way to set the timeout on the driver as
> > to force a IO exception and terminate the jdbc request.
> >
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