setting connection timeout in URL class

[developerinlondon]

i am trying to change the default connection timeout in a URLConnection so that it waits a bit longer. But I seem to be getting connection timeout errors in shorter times.
code :
URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
conn.setDoOutput(true);
conn.setConnectTimeout(300000);

in my logs I get a timeout error in about 21000ms.

any ideas?

 

[developerinlondon]

ok it seems the 21000ms is the maximum its waiting... is there any other settings i need to look at?

 

[Diancecht]

Did you try a getConnectTimeout() to check the value?
There's also another timeout parameter called readTimeout.

Cheers,

Dian