Re: HttpUriRequest.abort vs EntityUtils.consume

[Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org>]

On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 07:23 -0500, Chad La Joie wrote:
> In cases where there is no body, or you don't care about the body, in
> the response is there a difference between calling abort() on the
> request and using EntityUtils.consume on the response?
> 

EntityUtils#consume attempts to keep the connection alive by reading the
message until the end of stream, while HttpUriRequest#abort simply shuts
down the underlying connection.

Oleg 


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