Name: dbT83986 Date: 02/27/99


When waiting for a cgi response I find it can often be faster
just to drop the current connection and make a new one if it
hasn't loaded after a second or two.

I was unable to find what should have been a simple solution to
retry the url after only a couple of seconds had passed. I
believe it would be in the benefit of the Java language for you
to add a feature which would allow the urls to timeout after a
given amount of time (be it longer or shorter).

I think the two best ways to approach this are:

    (1) Allow the user to specify a timeout time (sounds funny) when opening the
    connection.
        ex. openConnection(int milliseconds) would be a method in
        the URL class (and possibly the URLConnection class).

    (2) Allow the user to set a specific timeout time for the URL
    connection itself. Therefor any other redirects or change of
    urls will already have the last timeout time to wait.
        ex. setTimeout(int milliseconds) would be a new method in
 the URLConnection class.
(Review ID: 52703)
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