Android - setSoTimeout not working

Question

So I\'m running into a not working socket timeout. I followed all instructions given by existing posts, but its still not working (I never get a socket timeout exception). H

Answer 1

See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/20031077/2609238

The problem might be in the Apache HTTP Client. See HTTPCLIENT-1098. Fixed in 4.1.2.

The timeout exception tries to reverse DNS the IP, for logging purposes. This takes an additional time until the exception is actually fired.