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Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 23:32:36 +0100
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Subject: Re: About "httpclient4.idletimeout"
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Originally, HC4 used to ping the connection on every re-use.
This was quite expensive.
Now it only does so if it has been idle for a while; I think this is
the timeout it uses.

If so, it should be set to the keep alive timeout that would be sent
by the server (or a bit less).

On 7 April 2015 at 21:26, Philippe Mouawad
<p.mouawad@ubik-ingenierie.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> httpclient4.idletimeout was introduced in 2.12 to handle servers who do not
> send Keep-Alive header.
>
> This value is returned as part of implementation of :
> http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/httpclient/apidocs/org/apache/http/impl/client/DefaultConnectionKeepAliveStrategy.html#getKeepAliveDuration%28org.apache.http.HttpResponse,%20org.apache.http.protocol.HttpContext%29
>
>
> I was wondering what should be the ideal value for such a parameter ?
> Is it related to Apache Httpd KeepAliveTimeout or is it completely
> unrelated ?
>
>
> Regards
> Philippe