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How do I timeout on a network connection?
If you didn't know that there is a method available, you'd probably think of using a timer thread that closes the connection when it times out. There is an easier way to handle network timeouts. You can have better
control over your socket communications using socket options. And, to make developer's life easy, there is this useful option called SO_TIMEOUT.

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Now try to run it with different values for timeout:

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Author of answer: Joris Van den Bogaert

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