[android-developers] It is possible to stop a thread that is connecting to URL with httpConnection.connect()?

i have a thread that is connecting to a url to obtaining some data.

Sometimes the method httpConnection.connect(); taked too munch time to get the response, and i want to limit the loading dialog of this connection thread to 5 seg.

I tryed adding timeouts into the code, but it doesn't work!!

            URL formattedUrl = new URL(url); 
            URLConnection connection = formattedUrl.openConnection(); 
            connection.setConnectTimeout(5000);
            connection.setReadTimeout(5000);
            HttpURLConnection httpConnection = (HttpURLConnection) connection;
            httpConnection.setAllowUserInteraction(false);
            httpConnection.setInstanceFollowRedirects(true);
            httpConnection.setRequestMethod("GET");
            httpConnection.setConnectTimeout(5000);
            httpConnection.setReadTimeout(5000);
            httpConnection.connect();

So, i must stop the connect method and the thread when 5000 seconds have passed or when the used has pressed the back key on the phone.

How can this be achieved? i can't find info about doing this work in android with a url connection thread.

thanks

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