HttpClient API expectations for connection failures

[Jaikiran Pai]

Hi Chris,


On 12/06/18 8:05 PM, Chris Hegarty wrote:
>
> I filed the following JIRA to track this issue:
>    https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8204864
>
> I think that the most appropriate course of action is to consistently throw
> the IOException subtype, ConnectionException ( with the original cause ),
> for any failures encountered during a connect operation. Rather than trying
> to deal with the low-level NIO exceptions.

Makes sense.
>
> I’ll resolve this issue in the sandbox, and it will likely make the next refresh
> [1], along with all other comments and feedback that we’ve received to date.

Thank you.

-Jaikiran