Http Request through URL Connection?

Question

Hi ,
Iam using an Applet (under JRE 1.3.0). Iam trying to send a Http Request using URL Connection. It is working fine . However, if the response time of the server is more than 3 minutes , the Response is not coming back to the server and the Applet is in a loop trying to read from the Server. I have observed that the request is sent to the server and it is processed successfully.
When I test it in my local devp. machine it is working fine till 15 minutes which is my requirement.
Can anybody suggest what should be the possible reasons and any workaround for it?
Regards,
TejoKiran.Y

Answer 1

Iam copying the code fragments for the Applet Iam using . Is it a problem with the code? I heard that the URLConnection never times out . How is that it is not able to read the Response?
<CODE >
<HttpMessage>
public class HttpMessage {
URL servlet = null;
Hashtable headers = null;
public HttpMessage(URL servlet) {
this.servlet = servlet;
public InputStream sendGetMessage(Properties args) throws IOException {
String argString = ""; // default
if (args != null) {
argString = "?" + toEncodedString(args);
URL url = new URL(servlet.toExternalForm() + argString);
// Turn off caching
URLConnection con = url.openConnection();
con.setUseCaches(false);
// Send headers
sendHeaders(con);
return con.getInputStream();
private void sendHeaders(URLConnection con) {
if (headers != null) {
Enumeration enum = headers.keys();
while (enum.hasMoreElements()) {
String name = (String) enum.nextElement();
String value = (String) headers.get(name);
con.setRequestProperty(name, value);
</HttpMssage>
<Code used to Read the Response.>
                    URL url = new URL(getDocumentBase(),"/ccls/test/delay.jsp");
                    HttpMessage msg = new HttpMessage(url);
                    InputStream in = msg.sendGetMessage(null);
                         char[] buff = new char[2048];
                         int bytesRead;
                         int ch;
                         StringBuffer sbtextbox = new StringBuffer("");
                         DataInputStream data = new DataInputStream(
                                                       new BufferedInputStream(in));
                         String line;
                    while ((line = data.readLine()) != null) {
                              sbtextbox.append(line+"\r\n");
</Code used to Read the Response.>
</CODE>