How to make the HTTP connection timeout/disconnected after a time interval?

I am new in Apache HttpClient, I used the following code to get the HTTP connection timeout (disconnected) after开发者_运维知识库 certain time interval:

PostMethod method = new PostMethod(authURL);
HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
HttpClientParams params= new HttpClientParams();
params.setParameter(params.CONNECTION_MANAGER_TIMEOUT, 10); //10 Nano second
client.executeMethod(method);

but it wait for more than one minute without any hope to timeout/disconnect? Where can the problem be?

There are 2 timeouts involved in HTTPClient, try to set both,

  client.getHttpConnectionManager().
        getParams().setConnectionTimeout(5000);
  client.getHttpConnectionManager().
        getParams().setSoTimeout(5000);

However, the values will be ignored if the connection is stuck in a native socket call. So you might have to run the request in a different thread so you can time it out. See my answer to this question on how to do that,

java native Process timeout

The connection manager timeout triggers when the act of trying to get a connection from your connection manager takes too long. This is not the same as the timeout for the http connection itself. Use HttpClientParams.setSoTimeout() instead.

http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/apidocs/org/apache/commons/httpclient/params/HttpMethodParams.html#setSoTimeout%28int%29

Have you looked at setting SO_TIMEOUT ?

Sets the socket timeout (SO_TIMEOUT) in milliseconds to be used when executing the method. A timeout value of zero is interpreted as an infinite timeout.