Thanks Oleg -- that worked great.  Saved me alot of headache :)

Brian


olegk wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 10:50 -0700, Brian Tanner wrote:
>> I'm torn!  I'm using HttpClient in a Web application which uses the
>> authentication information from the Web app login to set credentials in
>> the
>> HttpClient.  I see that getState() is synchronized, but if I’m only using
>> one instance of the HttpClient in my web app, I could potentially send a
>> request to the back-end web server using credentials from a different
>> user
>> session.
>>  
>> I have a choice to make, I’m not sure which is best:
>>     o  I could create a synchronized block on the HttpClient instance
>> that I
>> fetch from my singleton class and set the credentials and execute the
>> request in the same block.
>> 
>>     o  I can setup the HttpClient with the credentials using
>> .getState().setCredentials and then store the client in the session of
>> the
>> web app.  Problem is HttpClient does not implement serializable and my
>> environment is clustered.
>> 
>>     o  I can create a new instance of HttpClient for every call to the
>> backend web server – blah!
>> 
>> Help!
>> 
> 
> Brian,
> 
> It is all very simple. Just use a separate instance of HttpState per
> individual thread of execution and pass it as a parameter to the
> HttpClient#execute method.
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> Oleg 
> 
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