Are there any significant downsides to using HttpRequest.abort() to signal that
a request should give up as soon as possible? Knowing that this is a blocking
I/O not the apache async client. Or, is simply better to let it go on
naturally and discard the request’s response whenever it completes?
The basic pattern is
HttpRequestBase request = ...
Future f = executor.submit(r)
try {
f.get(ms, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
}
catch(TimeoutException e) {
request.abort(); // <<< ?good or bad?
throw e;
}
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Pete Keyes
Starbucks Coffee Co.
