Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact commons-httpclient-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list commons-httpclient-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 34430 invoked from network); 29 Jan 2003 12:37:32 -0000 Received: from quad4.biz (HELO p15105814.pureserver.info) (217.160.133.217) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 29 Jan 2003 12:37:32 -0000 Received: from web.de (mail.novotec.de [62.159.44.2]) by p15105814.pureserver.info (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.2 (i386)) with ESMTP id A234D4403E for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:37:29 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3E37CBBD.5060209@web.de> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:40:29 +0100 From: Derk Muenchhausen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: commons-httpclient-dev@jakarta.apache.org Subject: performance Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Hi, I just compared the performance of Sun's HttpURLConnection with Apache's HttpClient. I tried several times a chunked communication with four 8192 byte chunks. HttpURLConnection needs about 890 ms, HttpClient needs just 722 ms. Was my measuring wrong? Is HttpClient really faster than HttpURLConnection? What have you done, that HttpClient got significant faster? Derk