On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 15:16 -0500, John Corro wrote: > I've been noticing that I'm receiving Keep-Alive headers from a server I'm > trying to access. I was looking for any built-in methods that will tell me > the status of this header flag and the closest thing I could find was > "HttpMethodBase.shouldCloseConnection()", but that's protected. Is there a > specific reason this isn't given a "public" scope? > I would like to be able to tell if a connection should be kept alive or not > (without manually having to look for the header, etc) so that I don't > explicitly close it via a "releaseConnection()" when I've completed executing > the http call. To the best of my knowledge a call to "releaseConnection()" > will cause the connection to close without regard of any Keep-Alive header > values - please correct me if this understanding is wrong.
John, HttpClient always keeps connection open per default if they can be kept alive. Please consider implementing a custom connection manager if you want to exert a greater control over the connection management process. Hope this helps Oleg > > > John M. Corro > www.cornerstone.net > Cornerstone Consulting, Inc > 731 N. Jackson Street, Suite 600 > Milwaukee, WI 53202 > (414) 212-3500 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
