Android connection timeouts

Question

In HttpURLConnection class there are two methods foe setting time outs.One is setConnectTimeout(t1) and other is setReadTimeout(t2) .What is the relationship between t1 and t2? Should t1>t2 ?

Answer 1

setConnectTimeout() is a the timeout of the connection, meaning how long it takes to connect to the server

setReadTimeout() is a timeout for reading, meaning how long it takes to read from server, and if it takes longer than that it will timeout the read

In a way they don't have anything to do

Answer 2

setConnectTimeout(milliseconds) :Sets the maximum time in milliseconds to wait while connecting. setReadTimeout(milliseconds) :Sets the maximum time to wait for an input stream read to complete before giving up .