> Not quite. HttpClient as of version 4.4 supports so called multi-home > hosts, that is hosts with multiple DNS records. HttpClient will attempt > to establish connection to a responsive endpoint and only if all of them > fail to respond and will propagate the exception up the caller stack to > be eventually acted upon by HttpRequestRetryHandler.
Interesting, that's good to know. Although obviously multi-A record hosts doesn't apply in my instance ... unfortunatley. However certainly worth remembering for the future ! > > If the default fail-over logic is not what you want there is an option > of building a custom connection operator and replacing the default one. > > http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-4.5.x/httpclient/xref/org/apache/http/impl/conn/DefaultHttpClientConnectionOperator.html > > Oleg Sounds like a good option. I guess this would be the preferable route than say chaining a bunch of try/catch with boolean flags ! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: httpclient-users-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: httpclient-users-h...@hc.apache.org
