Do you connections to the Apache HTTP client library and the retry
code that is looking for specific exceptions? From a distance it
seems very fragile and depending on very implementation specific
behavior. I wonder if it has ever been tested on Windows or with an
untimed connect.
I am not involved in the Apache HTTP client library project. However,
I will go ahead and open a discussion in their mailing list and bring
this issue to their attention, so that they can decide how to deal
with it.
Thank you for your help and the explanation.
This has now been fixed in the Apache HTTP client library to no longer
treat these two exception types differently when it comes to retry
handling logic https://github.com/apache/httpcomponents-client/pull/311
-Jaikiran
