Hello Jeremy, releasing a connection and closing a connection are two different things. A connection always has to be released by the application, so it can be used again for another request. Releasing a connection means giving it back to the pool.
Closing a connection has to do with keep-alive. A connection can be re-used without being closed, or it can be re-used after being closed. In the latter case, it will be re-opened. The former is possible only if the next request is sent to the same host. If not, even the connection that was kept alive will be closed, before being reopened to a different host. You don't touch the releaseConnection method in BasicHttpMethod or any other *Method class, because all it does is to give the connection back to the pool. And that's something that has to be done anyway. You change the releaseConnection method in the pool implementation because every connection being given back to the pool will pass through that method. That gives you the opportunity to do something with it, for example to close it. Since you are still seeing short SSL handshakes instead of full ones, there are two reasons I can think of right now: 1) you made some minor mistake when implementing the modified pool (connection manager), so the code that closes the connection is not executed 2) your SSL implementation maintains a pool of SSL sockets which is different from the pool of HttpConnections maintained by HttpClient, or rather by your modified connection manager I suggest you investigate these reasons in the order given. I'd add some debug output to the changed method in the connection manager. A small typo, for example in the method name, will still leave valid Java code, but breaks the overriding of the base class method and bypasses your modifications. If that is not the problem, you'll have to dig deep into the documentation of your SSL/JSSE implementation before modifying the SecureProtocolSocketFactory you're using. hope that helps, Roland --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
