Is there a way to read the inputstream for a specific amount of time?

Question

I\'ve a situation where a thread opens a telnet connection to a target m/c and reads the data from a program which spits out the all the data in its buffer. After all the da

Answer 1

Use another thread to close the connection after 15 mins. Alternatively, you could check after each read if 15mins have passed and then simply stop reading and cleanup the connection, but this would only work if you're sure the remote server will continue to send data (if it doesn't the read will block indefinitely).