Currently, the XmlRpcClient and XmlRpcClientLite use a simple implementation of an http client. This implementation does not support many extended HTTP features. I am currently working on a change to the code that will enable this functionality, so possibly look for it in a future release!
--Ryan Hoegg John Perrotto wrote: >Hi All, > >I'm using an HttpServlet to host my XmlRpcServer. I want to enable the >HTTP keep-alive feature between my client and server apps. I've called >the method XmlRpc.setKeepAlive(true) on the server and client-side. My >Java client is using the >org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClient.SecureXmlRpcClient and indeed the HTTP >header being sent in the client request contains "connection - >Keep-Alive" BUT it appears that a new connection is being made by the >client with each request. The same thing is happening as well if I use >an XmlRpcClient or XmlRpcClientLite client object. The funny thing is >that I also have a COM based client application that's hitting this same >XmlRpc Servlet and it's working properly reusing the same connection. >Does anybody have any clues or suggestions? Am I missing some >configuration parameter? Could there be a problem with any of these >Apache client implementations? Thanks in advance for you help! > >JohnP > > >