TIME_WAIT in httpclient-4.0.2

["Huang, Thomas (388J)" <Th...@jpl.nasa.gov>]

Hi,

I am new to HttpClient.  I took the example directly from the HttpClient javadoc by invoking it 10 times.  The program ran fine, but I see 10 TIME_WAIT.  This suggests the example code is not closing the socket gracefully.  Is this a bug or am I looking at a bad example?  The problem with TIME_WAIT is the program will eventually hang if I increase the number of iterations.  Please advise.

thanks,

Thomas.

import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import java.io.*;


public class TimeWait {

   public static void test (String url) throws Exception {
      HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();

      // Prepare a request object
      HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet(url);

      // Execute the request
      HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpget);

      // Examine the response status
      System.out.println(response.getStatusLine());

      // Get hold of the response entity
      HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

      // If the response does not enclose an entity, there is no need
      // to worry about connection release
      if (entity != null) {
         InputStream instream = entity.getContent();
         try {

            BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(
                  new InputStreamReader(instream));
            // do something useful with the response
            System.out.println(reader.readLine());
         } catch (IOException ex) {
            // In case of an IOException the connection will be released
            // back to the connection manager automatically
            throw ex;
         } catch (RuntimeException ex) {
            // In case of an unexpected exception you may want to abort
            // the HTTP request in order to shut down the underlying
            // connection and release it back to the connection manager.
            httpget.abort();
            throw ex;
         } finally {
            // Closing the input stream will trigger connection release
            instream.close();
         }

         // When HttpClient instance is no longer needed,
         // shut down the connection manager to ensure
         // immediate deallocation of all system resources
         httpclient.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
      }
   }

   public static void main (String[] args) throws Exception {
      for (int i=0; i<10; ++i) {
         TimeWait.test("http://www.apache.org");
      }
   }
}


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