Hello,
Im occassionally getting the following error (HC 4.3.4) There was no reply from the server org.apache.http.NoHttpResponseException: 10.150.3.159:80 failed to respond at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultHttpResponseParser.parseHead(DefaultHttpRes ponseParser.java:143) at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultHttpResponseParser.parseHead(DefaultHttpRes ponseParser.java:57) at org.apache.http.impl.io.AbstractMessageParser.parse(AbstractMessageParser.ja va:260) at org.apache.http.impl.DefaultBHttpClientConnection.receiveResponseHeader(Defa ultBHttpClientConnection.java:161) at org.apache.http.impl.conn.CPoolProxy.receiveResponseHeader(CPoolProxy.java:1 53) at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor.doReceiveResponse(HttpRequestEx ecutor.java:271) at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor.execute(HttpRequestExecutor.jav a:123) at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.execute(MainClientExec.java:25 4) at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.ProtocolExec.execute(ProtocolExec.java:195) at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec.execute(RetryExec.java:86) at org.apache.http.impl.client.InternalHttpClient.doExecute(InternalHttpClient. java:184) at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient. java:82) at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient. java:106) at com.ventusproxy.proxy.services.http.HttpInstance.sendRequest(HttpInstance.ja va:610) ( . . . ) Ive read some posts about it. It seems that the main reason is that keep-alive connections are dropped on the server side. In my case I dont have keep alive enabled (every request initiates a new connection to the server). Furthermore I have the following retryHandler: public class RequestRetryHandler implements HttpRequestRetryHandler { private int maxExecutionCount; public RequestRetryHandler(int maxExecutionCount) { this.setMaxExecutionCount(maxExecutionCount); } public void setMaxExecutionCount(int maxExecutionCount) { this.maxExecutionCount = maxExecutionCount; } public boolean retryRequest(IOException exception, int executionCount, HttpContext context) { if (executionCount > this.maxExecutionCount) return false; if ( (exception instanceof InterruptedIOException) || (exception instanceof UnknownHostException) || (exception instanceof ConnectException) || (exception instanceof SSLException) ) return false; return (!(HttpClientContext.adapt(context).getRequest() instanceof HttpEntityEnclosingRequest)); } } I realize its a server problem (its probably dropping connections), but is there anything else I can do to minimize this error (in addition to disable keepAlive and enable a retryHandler)? Thanks, Joan.