Java: socket read time out exception

Question

I trying to make a call to a very heavy duty process. It\'s average work length is estimated by 9-10 minutes.

When I\'m executing the process, I set the timeout for

Answer 1

I had the same problem and the solution was not use socket.shutdownInput(); socket.shutDownOutput(); until the last time of reading or writing data to the socket. This made the socket go to FIN_WAIT state thus waiting 2 minutes before closing. You can read more about it in this post