RFR: 8368528: HttpClient.Builder.connectTimeout should accept arbitrarily large values

[Volkan Yazici]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:16:03 GMT, Daniel Fuchs <dfuchs at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Introduce necessary fixes to address exceptions thrown when excessive `Duration`s are provided to `Duration`-accepting `HttpClient` public APIs.
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> src/java.net.http/share/classes/jdk/internal/net/http/common/Deadline.java line 321:
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>> 319:         }
>> 320:     }
>> 321: 
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> Do we need to change this method? I would just revert them.

`Duration#between(Temporal,Temporal)` can throw `DateTimeException` and `ArithmeticException`, but not in our case due to the reason I elaborated in the comment. In this change, I've removed these two exceptions from the Javadoc, since they cannot happen.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27973#discussion_r2475376403