Thanks for all the replies.
Yes, point taken Arne. So here goes:
SUN One Application Server running an Application which uses
apache.commons.httpclient to make connections to an Application
running in a WebSphere Application Server v5.1 instance.
the httpclient has the following settings:
connect_timeout = 5000 (ms)
response_timeout = 2500 (ms)
However it looks like neither is timeout works when we get a "Read
timeout" errors in the logs.
So it would appears that they are actually different.
I can understand the connect_timeout but I don't am not able to see
the difference between a response timeout and a read timeout in this
context.
Thanks,
EddieT