Getting java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Connection timed out in android

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I'm developing an android application where I'm sending requests to the web server and parsing JSON objects. Frequently I'm getting `java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Connection timed out` exception while communicating with the server. Some times it will work perfectly without any problem. I know this same question has been asked in SO many times. But still, I didn't get any satisfying solution to this problem. I'm posting my logcat and app-server communication code below. ``` public JSONObject RequestWithHttpUrlConn(String _url, String param){ HttpURLConnection con = null; URL url; String response = ""; Scanner inStream = null; PrintWriter out = null; try { url = new URL(_url); con = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(); con.setDoOutput(true); con.setRequestMethod("POST"); if(param != null){ con.setFixedLengthStreamingMode(param.getBytes().length); } con.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"); out = new PrintWriter(con.getOutputStream()); if(param…

Accepted Answer

I've searched all over the web and after reading lot of docs regarding connection timeout exception, the thing I understood is that, preventing `SocketTimeoutException` is beyond our limit. One way to effectively handle it is to define a connection timeout and later handle it by using a `try-catch` block. Hope this will help anyone in future who are facing the same issue.

```
HttpUrlConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();

//set the timeout in milliseconds
conn.setConnectTimeout(7000);
```

Getting java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Connection timed out in android

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