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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:24:40 -0400
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Subject: Re: Retry with multiple IP addresses
From: Greg Lindholm <greg.lindholm@gmail.com>
To: HttpClient User Discussion <httpclient-users@hc.apache.org>
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Thanks, that's great.  Perfect excuse to upgrade.

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk@apache.org> wrote=
:
> On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 17:04 -0400, Greg Lindholm wrote:
>> A service we use has suggested to us that if a HTTP request to them
>> fails (for whatever reason) that we should retry the request using one
>> of the other IP addresses that DNS returns.
>>
>> I traced through HttpClient 3.0 (I haven't upgraded yet) and see how
>> the Socket Factory is using the standard Socket() constructor with the
>> host name which internally uses InetAddress.getByName(hostname) which
>> internally does a
>>
>> =A0 =A0 public static InetAddress getByName(String host)
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 throws UnknownHostException {
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 return InetAddress.getAllByName(host)[0];
>> =A0 =A0 }
>>
>> So it will retrieve all the IP addresses for the host and then always
>> use the first one.
>>
>> Question 1) Does the new HttpClient have any facility to retry a
>> failed request on the next IP address?
>>
>> if Q1 is NO then:
>>
>> Question 2) How would I go about providing this facility? Can I
>> provide a custom Socket Factory? Any suggestions? (I am not an expert
>> on HttpClient so please provide enough details for a newbie to follow
>> along.)
>>
>> I can figure out how to construct a Socket using a InetAdrress
>> (instead of a hostname) and deal with round-robin thru the IP
>> addresses. The thing I need help on is how to hook this into
>> HttpClient.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Greg
>>
>
> Greg
>
> Versions 4.0.3 and 4.1-alpha2 provide support for multihome hosts out of
> the box. HttpClient uses a simple round-robin algorithm per default, but
> one can implement a more complex logic with the new API available in
> HttpClient 4.1
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Oleg
>
>
>
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