I am a little confused by your comments Gus as I understand it the request
headers are being sent as part of the request to the server, how would
checking these headers help me out?
Cheers
From: Gustavo Hexsel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "HttpClient User Discussion" <[email protected]>
To: 'HttpClient User Discussion' <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: HttpClient bandwidth
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:25:51 -0500
Can't you just check the header's value with getRequestHeader() before
you
call getResponseBodyAsStream()?
If it doesn't match, just close the connection... the website will
generate the response page anyway and the load should be about the same for
it, but the httpClient doesn't need all that.
[]s Gus
-----Original Message-----
From: Oleg Kalnichevski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: August 30, 2005 6:24 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: HttpClient bandwidth
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 10:15:50PM +1000, B K wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have developed an application using httpclient, and now that I
> have started using it, it is using to much bandwidth I wonder if
anybody
> has some pointers on how to reduce the amount of data being transferred.
My
> idea was to use the response headers to only retrieve the response if
the
> data had changed, unfortunately I can't find any way of doing this, my
idea
> was to only retrieve the response when the web content changed. The web
> sites I am dealing with are very dynamic and change every couple of
minutes
> so I need to check every minute for updates to the data.
>
> The application is gathering data from 10 web sites, and I have
developed
> it so there are 10 instances of httpclient, one for each web site, the
big
> problem I see is everytime I send out the requests I have to download
the
> response even if there is no change in the data. Anybody got some bright
> design ideas on how to cut down, I have researched and come up with
nothing.
>
> Thanks
>
B K,
There's not much you can do unless the target servers play along. Please
refer to the HTTP spec [1] and take a look at the 304 Not Modified
mechanism [2] for details
Hope this helps
Oleg
[1] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html
[2] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.3.5
>
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