If you want to have more control over retires you can implement HttpRequestRetryHandler
See 1.3.4 here http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/tutorial/html/fundamentals.html On 4 Aug 2011, at 16:22, KARR, DAVID (ATTSI) wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: KARR, DAVID (ATTSI) >> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 8:20 AM >> To: HttpClient User Discussion >> Subject: Connection retries >> >> I'd like to understand some things about how and why HttpClient >> "retries" connections that it can't make. I've tried setting the >> "connection timeout" to 20 seconds, but what I see happen is that it >> actually tries to connect 6 times, each time timing out after 20 >> seconds, where it says it's going to try another IP address (although >> there's only one possibility for my test). I can understand where this >> is useful when a DNS name maps to multiple IP addresses. > > Actually, I see that in my particular test, it was actually using different > IP addresses, so this is understandable. > >> Is there any way to control the number of times it retries? I couldn't >> find any obvious way to do this. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >
