Eugene Batogov [http://community.jboss.org/people/JohnBat26] replied to the discussion "How do set socket read timeout in JBoss Remoting ?" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/553003#553003 -------------------------------------------------------------- This parameter don't work for me. And -Dsun.net.client.defaultConnectTimeout=5000 -Dsun.net.client.defaultReadTimeout=5000 don't work JDK-1.6.0_21 I have written a test: --------------------- URL url = new URL(" http://172.20.0.1:8080/XXXX http://172.20.0.1:8080/XXXX");        HttpURLConnection httpCon = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();        httpCon.setReadTimeout(5000);        httpCon.setConnectTimeout(5000);        long date = httpCon.getDate();        System.out.println("Response Message is " + httpCon.getResponseMessage());        Properties p = System.getProperties();        if (date == 0)          System.out.println("No date information.");        else          System.out.println("Date: " + new Date(date));    } --------------------- And manual set  work ok. But -Dsun.net.client.defaultConnectTimeout=5000 -Dsun.net.client.defaultReadTimeout=5000 don't work (. I want instal timeouts globally. How  ? -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/553003#553003] Start a new discussion in JBoss Remoting at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]