Patch for Enhancement Bug # 6313849 and 417591

[Andreas Schaefer]

Christopher Hegarty - Sun Microsystems Ireland wrote:
> Andreas Schaefer wrote:
>
>> I also have a problem to come up with an use case of an asynchronous
>> disconnect. How would another thread knows when to disconnect. The only
>> use case I can come up with is than two threads could collide during
>> connect / disconnect and we might want to prevent the URLConnection from
>> doing so. This way we make sure that either a URLConnection is fully
>> connected or disconnected.
>
> I have seen a few cases where HttpURLConnection.disconnect has been 
> called asynchronously as a way of implemeting a connect/read timeout 
> in user code.
Did you know that HttpURLConnection.disconnect() method is already in 
and I did not do anything with it. So if it could be done for the 
HttpURLConnection why couldn't it be done for the base URLConnection?
> One such bug that comes to mind is CR 6358532. This bug was seen to be 
> important enough that it was escalated by an external customer.
Again that is a problem for the HttpURLConnection and does not apply to 
the others. BTW I could not find this bug.

-Andy
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