Sean Landis <sean.landis <at> gmail.com> writes: > > I am using the new apache http client and I'm seeing strange behavior. I am > sending 50 messages to the server in rapid succession. Using the 'ethereal' > tool, I examined the TCP traffic. What I saw was that occasionally the > connection would get reused once, that is, two calls would occur before the > connection was closed. In the other cases, I think 45, the connection was > closed after the first call.
I figured out my problem. I was reviewing a link Jerome had referred me to, http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/net/http-keepalive.html and saw this: "Do not abandon a connection by ignoring the response body. Doing so may results in idle TCP connections. That needs to be garbage collected when they are no longer referenced." I added: tmp = reply.getOutput(); and connections remained open. Sean
