On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 22:05 -0700, Ankur Shah wrote: > I am using httpclient to connect to a remote server. Now for each primary > server there's also a backup failover server that i must talk to if > connection attempts with the primary server fails. To achieve > this what i'd ideally like to do is have HttpClient use a custom factory > that tries to create a socket connection with the primary server and if that > fails (or times out), it'll go about talking to backup server (and retry a > few times before giving up altogether). > > Now, searching on the web, i did find references to a > MultiHomeProtocolSocketFactory (that extends DefaultSocketFactory) that is > presumably in apache contrib package. But what that does is that in the > overriden > createSocket method, it takes host as a param (among other thing) and then > simply does a InetAddress.getAllByName which is not what i want. From what i > understand this caters to a DNS based failover which is not the case here. > > What i'd ideally like to do is create a factory and have a createSocket > method that takes primary and secondary host and port as args and then tries > both. I am not sure though how can i make HttpConnection class > invoke my method.
Ankur, What's the point of trying to implement the failover support on the ProtocolSocketFactory level? What's wrong with just retrying failed requests against a secondary server in case the primary one is unavailable? Oleg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
