Tal, That's correct that those parameters are mostly used on a per connector basis, and not a per request basis.
I don't think it is a limitation of Apache HTTP Client which should be able to configure these parameters on a per connection basis, but more a Restlet API limitation. Some room for improvement for RF 3.0 maybe: https://github.com/restlet/restlet-framework-java/issues/815 Best regards, Jerome 2013/11/5 Tal Liron <tal.li...@threecrickets.com> > I know that it's possible to globally configure the "socketTimeout" > parameter for the HttpClientHelper. However, is it really impossible to > configure a different timeout per request? > > In my experimentation, whatever I set in the context for a particular > ClientResource is ignored. It seems that the timeout is only initialized > once. > > Is this due to a limitation in Apache HttpClient? > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=3067933 > ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=3071510
