       <div class="features">read / write</div>
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          <p>Gets and sets the connection timeout.</p>
<p>When connecting to a new host exceeds this timeout, a <a href="../../dart-io/SocketException-class.html">SocketException</a>
is thrown. The timeout applies only to connections initiated after the
timeout is set.</p>
<p>When this is <code>null</code>, the OS default timeout is used. The default is
<code>null</code>.</p>
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