Need Help controlling the time my program stays connected to a network

Question

Hi,
Every time I open a Thread to listen to client connections, ou to send data to a server, i need to control how long the other side takes to respond.
This is to fulfill two objectives:
1) if the client or the server takes to long to respond the connection is terminated.
2) if, for example, 30 seconds have passed, the server could send a packet with information that tells the client to wait a little more.
Any help is appreciated, thanks.

Answer 1

BigDaddyLoveHandles wrote:
Before you read, remember the timestamp:
timestamp = System.currentTimeMillis(); When you want to calculate how much time remains:
long soTimeout = socket.getSoTimeout();
if (soTimeout == 0) {
//handle no timeout case
} else {
long now = System.currentTimeMillis();
long timeLeft = soTimeout - (now - timestamp);
//use timeLeft somehow
Great, that works.
i think i will also try to use the classes Timer and Calendar to create a scheduler, and see which option if better for what i need.
Thanks for your help.
regards.