Receiving request timeout even though connect timeout and read timeout is set to default (infinite)?

Question

I am connecting to a web service and did not set any connect timeout and read timeout on HttpURLConnection. What is the default connect timeout and read timeout? Is it dependent

Answer 1

Did you do any research? The defaults are detailed in the documentation. Here's the relevant parts:

public void setConnectTimeout (int timeout) Since: API Level 1

Sets the timeout value in milliseconds for establishing the connection to the resource pointed by this URLConnection instance. A SocketTimeoutException is thrown if the connection could not be established in this time. Default is 0 which stands for an infinite timeout.

public void setReadTimeout (int timeout) Since: API Level 1

Sets the timeout value in milliseconds for reading from the input stream of an established connection to the resource. A SocketTimeoutException is thrown if the connection could not be established in this time. Default is 0 which stands for an infinite timeout.

Also there is this note on timeouts:

URLConnection supports two timeouts: a connect timeout and a read timeout. By default, operations never time out.

It might be possible that the server you are connecting to is timing out your client.