Unexpected java.net.SocketTimeoutException from URL "http://www.dilbert.com" about scalaj-http HOT 4 CLOSED

Ok - I don't know what's going on, but as of writing this, it seems dilbert.com is working. But I get similar errors from other sites:

scala> val html = Http("http://www.sinfest.net").asString
java.net.SocketTimeoutException: connect timed out
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:339)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:200)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:182)
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:391)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:579)

scala> val html = Http("http://nyt.fi/category/sarjakuvat/").asString
java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:525)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$6.run(HttpURLConnection.java:1674)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$6.run(HttpURLConnection.java:1672)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getChainedException(HttpURLConnection.java:1670)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1243)
at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(HttpURLConnection.java:468)
at scalaj.http.Http$Request.process(Http.scala:125)

Both URLs above work ok with "curl -I".

Am I using the library wrong, or what could be going on?

from scalaj-http.

https://github.com/scalaj/scalaj-http#custom-connect-and-read-timeouts

from scalaj-http.

Thanks for pointing me to these! To me the defaults look a bit too low for "real life" network conditions, no? I would expect timeouts to be in the order of seconds...

from scalaj-http.

"real life" depends greatly on your use case. The library's first use was within a web application where longer timeouts would cause undesirable latencies for end users.

from scalaj-http.