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Archie Cobbs commented on HTTPCLIENT-731:
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Bleh, forgot "task" is a Runnable, not a Thread. I'll attach a new patch
shortly.
> Interrupting a connecting HTTP request thread incorrectly becomes a timeout
> exception
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>
> Key: HTTPCLIENT-731
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-731
> Project: HttpComponents HttpClient
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: HttpClient
> Affects Versions: 3.1 Final
> Environment: Java 1.5 Linux
> Reporter: Archie Cobbs
> Attachments: HTTPCLIENT-731.txt
>
>
> Consider this logic in {{TimeoutController.java}}:
> {noformat}
> public static void execute(Thread task, long timeout) throws
> TimeoutException {
> task.start();
> try {
> task.join(timeout);
> } catch (InterruptedException e) {
> /* if somebody interrupts us he knows what he is doing */
> }
> if (task.isAlive()) {
> task.interrupt();
> throw new TimeoutException();
> }
> }
> {noformat}
> The effect of this is that if thread A is in the middle of performing an HTTP
> request and happens to be waiting for the socket to connect, and then thread
> B interrupts thread A, thread A will throw a {{TimeoutException}}, even if
> the actual timeout is far off in the future.
> In other words, interrupting a requesting thread that happens to be waiting
> for a socket to connect is incorrectly interpreted as a connection timeout,
> which is incorrect.
> In my application, this causes the client to incorrectly believe the server
> is down, when in actuality some other part of the client is simply trying to
> cancel an outstanding RPC request.
> I realize that invoking {{HttpMethodBase.abort()}} would be a better way to
> abort the RPC request and am working on refactoring my code to do that.
> However, this "translation" of a thread interruption into a timeout event is
> still incorrect. Furthermore, this behavior is undocumented AFAICT.
> Suggestion for improvement: Convert thread interruptions into the equivalent
> of {{abort()}} and document this behavior.
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