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If I run my client and then run my server, it takes like 5 seconds for my client to realize that the server is there?How do I get it to retry its connection more often?

[182 byte] By [Nethera] at [2007-11-27 3:54:02]

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# 1

Have it timeout more quickly.

DrLaszloJamfa at 2007-7-12 8:58:08 >

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# 2

how do i do that

Nethera at 2007-7-12 8:58:08 >

# 3

[url= http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/net/Socket.html#setSoTimeout(int)]setSoTimeout(millis)[/url]

DrLaszloJamfa at 2007-7-12 8:58:08 >

# 4

But I can't call a method on an object that hasnt finished constructing, right? It halts on the constructor line of the code.

Nethera at 2007-7-12 8:58:08 >

# 5

Er, that timeout is for reading, now that I think about it. Maybe this version of connect is the answer: [url=http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/net/Socket.html#connect(java.net.SocketAddress,%20int)]connect(SocketAddress, timeout)[/url]:

Socket s = new Socket(); //note: no args

s.connect(socketAddess, timeout);

...

DrLaszloJamfa at 2007-7-12 8:58:08 >

# 6

Aha:

Socket mySocket = new Socket();

//set timeout to 5 seconds

mySocket.setSoTimeout(5000);

InetSocketAddress nextport = new InetSocketAddress(hostname, port);

try {

mySocket.connect(nextport);

} catch (SocketTimeoutException ste) {

ste.printStackTrace();

}

Nethera at 2007-7-12 8:58:08 >

# 7

I think we're converging on an answer! Could you try these various things and post your findings?

DrLaszloJamfa at 2007-7-12 8:58:08 >

# 8

i'm testing them now :)

Nethera at 2007-7-12 8:58:08 >

# 9

The code i posted works like a bee.

Nethera at 2007-7-12 8:58:08 >

# 10

What exactly do you mean by '5 seconds for my client to realize that the server is there'?

> //set timeout to 5 seconds

> mySocket.setSoTimeout(5000);

That's the read timeout, not the connect timeout.

> InetSocketAddress nextport = new InetSocketAddress(hostname, port);

> try {

>mySocket.connect(nextport);

You probably want to supply a connect timeout in this call.

ejpa at 2007-7-12 8:58:08 >

# 11

> You probably want to supply a connect timeout in this call.Woohoo! That would be reply #5

DrLaszloJamfa at 2007-7-12 8:58:08 >

# 12

yes it would Dr Jamf

ejpa at 2007-7-12 8:58:08 >

# 13

> yes it would Dr JamfI did a little, Dilbert-like dance in my cubicle.

DrLaszloJamfa at 2007-7-12 8:58:08 >

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