Hello, I have http request that takes too much time to be processed by the server (about 5 minutes). Because connection becomes idle for 5 minutes, proxy server shutdowns the connection. I'm trying to use TCP Keep-Alive in Apache DefaultHttpClient to make connection be alive for a long time (Not confuse TCP Keep-Alive with HTTP Keep-Alive that simply doesn't closes connection after response is sent).
Apache http core has following parameter SO_KEEPALIVE: http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-core-ga/httpcore/apidocs/org/apache/http/params/CoreConnectionPNames.html#SO_KEEPALIVE. However, due to DefaultHttpClient javadocs I can't customize client's behavior with that parameter: https://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/httpclient/apidocs/org/apache/http/impl/client/DefaultHttpClient.html . Do you know how to make DefaultHttpClient use TCP Keep-Alive strategy? Thanks, Baratali.
