How do I check if a Socket is currently connected in Java? [duplicate]

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Assuming you have some level of control over the protocol, I’m a big fan of sending heartbeats to verify that a connection is active. It’s proven to be the most fail proof method and will often give you the quickest notification when a connection has been broken.

TCP keepalives will work, but what if the remote host is suddenly powered off? TCP can take a long time to timeout. On the other hand, if you have logic in your app that expects a heartbeat reply every x seconds, the first time you don’t get them you know the connection no longer works, either by a network or a server issue on the remote side.

See Do I need to heartbeat to keep a TCP connection open? for more discussion.

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