Installing the ADT Plugin for Eclipse

Question

I am trying to install the ADT plugin for Eclipse. However, after I have went to \"Install New Software...\" and entered the plugin location https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/ec

Answer 1

I find these google sites very difficult to connect with from certain networks, but not from others. Here in Germany, I had terrible trouble going through Alice, but none going through Deutsche Telekom.

Sometimes I could reach the dl-ssl host from Alice, but in some later operation it would hang then time out. A day or so later, I might be able to make a connection again. Some people say they had luck going through a proxy, or by changing "http" to "https". I also saw this.

Here's what I think is going on.

First, Eclipse is miserably buggy, and handles unexpected situations very badly (for example, catching all exceptions, but failing to provide the exception's message!!), particularly when it comes to unresponsive links. It reminds me of the stock story of the mentally disturbed psychiatrist.

It looks as though the google server is badly configured, possibly as a naive protection mechanism meant to repel denial-of-service attacks: it only handles a few connection requests within a certain time frame from hosts certain networks, and if it gets too many requests, it locks out connections with the host for a long time.

Unfortunately, a single Eclipse update might require many connections in rapid succession; somebody unsure of how to configure Eclipse the first time will likely trip the Google booby-trap.

In my case, I was able to download what I needed by carefully choosing a subset of the available software, being very patient, and if I got locked out, just waiting a day until it let me in again.

Cheers!