Android: connection timeout not working (connection waits forever)

Question

I have an application that connects to a server. I set a timeout, disconnected the device from internet and tried to execute the post request to see if the timeout was calle

Answer 1

If you have no Internet the DNS request will fail, but you cannot control the DNS timeout. Eventually you should get an UnknownHostException, but this may take several minutes. In this case the best thing to do is to start a timer in a separate thread at the same time you make the HTTP request. If the timer goes off before the HTTP request has finished, you can abort the HTTP request.