How to reuse TCP connection when using a proxy with java.net.http.HttpClient in HTTP/1.1

[Simone Bordet]

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 10:13 PM Nicolas Henneaux
<nicolas.henneaux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Simone, that makes sense. I haven't thought there is actually no other way for the server to know the response is fully consumed or not.

Just to be clear, it's not a server problem.

The server won't read the next request until it's done with the
current response, so for the server the request/response boundaries
are clear.

The problem is on the client: if the client application does not read
the response content, the client implementation cannot reuse that
connection.
It cannot use it to send the next request (independently from the
server reading it or not), because when trying to read the next
response it will find (possibly only some) bytes of the previous
response that it will have a hard time to discard.
And the server may choke in the middle of the previous response and
close the connection, but oops the next request was already sent and
it's now lost.
So the client cannot reuse that connection to send another request ever.
No other choice than to close it.

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Simone Bordet
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