HTTP timeout of individual service

[bjmazur]

I am trying to create an http service that allows me to set the timeout WITHIN the service, to allow me to timeout the http post per client.

The timeout property of the service is garbage. Setting this will give you a timeout error AFTER the service still completes the full time set in watt.net.timeout…don’t see the value in that at all.

There is also a method that is downloadable from Advantage where you timeout the thread that contains the post. This is a poor approach also, as the thread will continue on even though it reached your time threshold.

I opened the pub.client:http service to see if there was something I could tweak, but it appears to be taking the watt.net.timeout property into this service on the server level, so I couldn’t simply sub that out.

Anyone create this service???

[bjmazur]

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

[Yemi_Bedu]

Hello,

I am not sure of how you can do something to use the built in http service. You may have to make your own http service. From the google search “java http timeout”, result #3:
Handling network timeouts in Java

You can download sample code at the bottom. I would probably look toward using the second approach as it coincides more with what you are talking about. be sure to have graceful catching inside your custom service.

Have you checked with the PS Utilities to see if they anything like this already? I don’t use it now but I know there has been things already done in it which has helped others. Good day.

Yemi Bedu