On 2010-12-30 07.34, Jerome Louvel wrote: > Hi Marc, > > I don't know if you still experiment issues with this, but here are a couple > of clarifications: > > 1) release() has the effect of closing the underlying TCP socket, preventing > persistent connection reuse. So it can't be recommended to systematically > call it. > > 2) exhaust() does ensure a proper consumption of the entity and enable reuse > of the connection. If you don't systematically consume the entity via other > means (actually reading it), then calling exhaust() is the way to go.
Is there any difference between best practices of how a client vs a server should handle this? Right now we have our clients do response.release() in a finally block. Does your response imply that this messes up persistent connections from the clients point of view? /Rickard ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2694744
