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Asked: 2026-05-10T15:28:09+00:00

I want to read the contents of a URL but don’t want to hang

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I want to read the contents of a URL but don’t want to ‘hang’ if the URL is unresponsive. I’ve created a BufferedReader using the URL…

URL theURL = new URL(url); URLConnection urlConn = theURL.openConnection(); urlConn.setDoOutput(true); BufferedReader urlReader = new BufferedReader(newInputStreamReader(urlConn.getInputStream()));

…and then begun the loop to read the contents…

do     {     buf = urlReader.readLine();     if (buf != null)         {         resultBuffer.append(buf);         resultBuffer.append('\n');         }     } while (buf != null);

…but if the read hangs then the application hangs.

Is there a way, without grinding the code down to the socket level, to ‘time out’ the read if necessary?

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  1. I think URLConnection.setReadTimeout is what you are looking for.

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