On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 15:49 -0700, Mohit Anchlia wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > >  On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 07:46 -0700, Mohit Anchlia wrote:
> > > > We are few times a day see high response times and we suspect it
> might
> > > have
> > > > to do with firewall dropping connection because of tcp keep alive.
> Even
> > > > though we have set to expire connection before that, I would still
> like
> > > to
> > > > confirm that this is not an issue. Is there a easy way to monitor how
> > > long
> > > > it takes for the httpclient to create a new connection or if it first
> > > > timedout because of dropped connection and then created a new
> connection?
> > > > This is in production so would like to know the safest approach.
> > >
> > > You can create a custom SchemeSocketFactory implementation or decorate
> > > one of the existing ones and measure the time elapsed in #connectSocket
> > > method in order to find out how long it took to establish connection to
> > > the remote host.
> > >
> > >
> > Thanks! Is the retry mechanism because of bad socket built in this
> method?
> > If there is a dropped connection by firewall, is that seamlessly taken
> care
> > of by this method? Or does it try to take another connection from the
> pool.
> > We use pool of connections.
> >
> >
>
> No, there is not retrial logic in the default implementations of
> SchemeSocketFactory. Connect and request execution retrial is handled by
> DefaultRequestDirector class.
>
>
Is this always in use by default? If I monitor something on
DefaultRequestDirector class I would be able to see the problem I described
related to firewall dropping connections?

Does httpclient have something similar to ping/pong of mod_jk where
connection gets pinged so often in the background to see if it still is
alive?


>  Oleg
>
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