Sockets - BufferedReader.read() operation time-out

Question

Hi all,
I'm facing some problems to receive data over socket connection from a PC. I send data via BufferedWriter, but I have time-out error (IOException: Operation timed-out) and I can't see why it happens.
Here is part of my code:
StringBuffer strBuffer = new StringBuffer();
          int charRead;
          File xmlFile = null;
          FileWriter fw = null;
          try{
               if(s != null){
                    bufReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(s.getInputStream()));
               xmlFile = new File(fileName);
               if(xmlFile.exists())
                    xmlFile.delete();
                    xmlFile.createNewFile();
                    fw = new FileWriter(xmlFile);     
               }else{
                    connect();
               //while((line = bufReader.readLine()) != null)
               while((charRead = bufReader.read()) > -1)
                    strBuffer.append((char)charRead );
               bufReader.close();          
               String writeString = strBuffer.substring(4);
               if(fw == null){
                    setErroSocket(true);
                    setMsgErroSocket("I/O Error: Erro recebendo dados via Socket");
               fw.write(writeString);
               fw.flush();
          }catch(IOException ioE){
               setErroSocket(true);
               setMsgErroSocket("I/O Error: " + ioE.getMessage());
          return xmlFile;
If nore detailed information is need, please ask me.
Thanks for any help !

Answer 1

Hi,
I believe I found where was the problem. I was a bit confused with setSoTimeout(), because I thought it set the limit of time for read bytes, but in fact it controls the limit of time that conection is off. Looking a little deeper in my code I saw that bytes are read, but the exception occurs the same way.
I just need to change some things because I need a permanent client socket on-line because I'll need constantly comunication with a server application (Delphi) running on a PC. I believe that I must start with changing my ClientSocket class into a Thread.
Thanks for your help !