How to change value of 'Read timeout' of Eclipse's Update Manager?

Question

How to change value of 'Read timeout' of Eclipse's Update Manager?

I have slow internet connection and I cannot install any plugin, because Eclipse's Update manager throws me exception:

Transfer Exception

java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(Native Method)
at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read1(Unknown Source)
at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.commons.httpclient.ContentLengthInputStream.read(ContentLengthInputStream.java:170)
at java.io.FilterInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.commons.httpclient.AutoCloseInputStream.read(AutoCloseInputStream.java:108)
at java.io.FilterInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.commons.httpclient.AutoCloseInputStream.read(AutoCloseInputStream.java:127)
at org.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.retrieve.AbstractRetrieveFileTransfer$1.performFileTransfer(AbstractRetrieveFileTransfer.java:140)
at org.eclipse.ecf.filetransfer.FileTransferJob.run(FileTransferJob.java:73)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:55)

Answer 1

The easiest way to get around this would be to download the .jar file of the plug-in you're trying to install and perform an offline installation.

Edit: I tried to find a link to a how-to, but eclipse.org kept timing out on me.

Answer 2

I believe that you were getting these timeout problems during the rollout of 3.5.1. Eclipse.org had several server and mirroring issues during this time, and this caused manhy people to experience timeouts when trying to update.

In the future, when you see problems like this, you can try installing from a specific mirror. I find that installing from here tends to work well even when Eclipse.org is not:

http://eclipse.unixheads.org/

Answer 3

Never mind on these timeout exceptions. Eclipse will download and install plugin anyway.

Answer 4

I got the error a lot with version 3.6, but adding the following line to the eclipse.ini helped me a lot:

-Dsun.net.client.defaultReadTimeout=30000

Add it right after the line with -vmargs