On Sun, 2015-12-20 at 22:44 +0100, Philippe Mouawad wrote:
> Hi Oleg,
> Back to this old subject and knowing that we must stick to 1 HttpClient per
> thread (as per all the discussion that followed this).
> Is there a plan to implement this lazy init of SSLContext in HttpClient as
> it used to be the case in HC3 ?
> 
> For our project, it's a killer in terms of performance, and for other use
> cases, it appears kind of weird that an SSLContext is initialized even for
> a pure HTTP traffic.
> 

Given that HttpClient instance should be initialized only once, eager
initialization of the SSLContext looks reasonable to me.

One, of course, can make SSL initialization lazy by using a custom
connection socket factory with SSLContext initialized on demand.

Hope this helps

Oleg

> Thanks
> Regards
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2014-05-14 at 19:46 +0100, sebb wrote:
> > > On 14 May 2014 12:28, Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org> wrote:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > > >> Issue is not present in HTTPCLient 3.1
> > > >
> > > > Philippe
> > > >
> > > > If HttpClient is used correctly, this code should only be executed only
> > > > once. Why does JMeter create more than one instance of HttpClient?
> > >
> > > We currently create an instance for each instance of different proxy
> > > settings and each protocol and each authority, because the client is
> > > created with these settings.
> > >
> > > This is also done for each thread.
> > >
> > > IIRC, this was necessary originally. We have not rewritten the code
> > > yet to use all the latest features.
> > >
> >
> > I see. For the time what you can do is to use a custom SSL socket
> > factory that lazily initializes SSL context when requested for the first
> > time. This is exactly what HC 3.1 does. It will be somewhat slower given
> > that one would need to mutex to synchronize access to the initialization
> > code.
> >
> > Oleg
> >
> > > > Oleg
> > > >
> > >
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