Re: [HAPI-devel] SocketTimeoutException ignored

[Jeremy H. <jer...@ka...>]

Anyone have any thoughts on the below question?

Thanks,

Jeremy Huiskamp | karoshealth
Software Engineer
7 Father David Bauer Drive, Suite 201
Waterloo, ON, N2L 0A2, Canada
www.karoshealth.com

On 14 September 2015 at 23:32, Jeremy Huiskamp <
jer...@ka...> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>  We're in the process of upgrading from hapi 1.2 to 2.2.  With 1.2, we
> used to be able to call Socket.setSOTimeout() and when that timeout
> tripped, the connection using the socket would nicely shut down.  2.2 seems
> to catch the exception, ignore it and keep on going.
>
>  Is there some other mechanism we can use to automatically shut down a
> connection after a certain period of inactivity?  We need this
> functionality to prevent leaks in our hl7 servers in environments where
> clients crash or firewalls silently drop connections.
>
>  I'd be happy to submit a patch but would want some feedback first.  Would
> it be acceptable to close the connection when a SocketTimeoutException
> happens?  Are there legitimate use cases for triggering and then recovering
> from a timeout?
>
> Jeremy Huiskamp | karoshealth
> Software Engineer
> 7 Father David Bauer Drive, Suite 201
> Waterloo, ON, N2L 0A2, Canada
> www.karoshealth.com
>
>