New socket timeout

Question

Regarding entry #6 in the FAQ:

"The FTPClient constructor is hanging connecting to the FTP server, even though I am supplying a timeout value"

Would it be acceptable to provide this functionality and maintain compatibility with releases prior to 1.4 using the reflection approach Apache Axis took in their socket utils class?
http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/ws-so ... iew=markup

I would be happy to provide a patch if required.

Answer 1

Yes, it is probably about time we got around to doing this. When this FAQ was originally written 1.4 had not been out for long ... most people should be running on at least 1.4 so it would be worthwhile.

We'll plan on doing this soon

Regarding entry #6 in the FAQ:

"The FTPClient constructor is hanging connecting to the FTP server, even though I am supplying a timeout value"

Would it be acceptable to provide this functionality and maintain compatibility with releases prior to 1.4 using the reflection approach Apache Axis took in their socket utils class?
http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/ws-so ... iew=markup

I would be happy to provide a patch if required.

Answer 2

We'll plan on doing this soon

Great, thanks Bruce.