Using java threads

[rooster21]

I have a java code to read the page from url. The program waits indefinitely for a long time when it reaches the below code.

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader (new InputstreamReader (url.getInputStream());

Is there a threading functionality or timer method that i can wrap around this line? while it reaches certain threshold time, it should skip this line and print "error reading url"

Any help on this would be greatly appreciable.

[wsaryada]

What about setting the connection timeout in the URLConnection object? Didn't it help?

[rooster21]

Thanks for hint.. connection timeout didn't help but i tried read timeout, it did. Thank you again.. :)