HttpClient executes requests multiple time if request timed out

Question

HttpClient executes request 4 times if it times out. If it does not time out then it is working fine. Is it related to HttpClient?

Answer 1

I found that it is HttpClient's default behaviour to execute requests 4 times if it fails. I am not sure about other kind of failures but at least with time out.

To disable this behaviour do this :

DefaultHttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
// Disable default behavior of HttpClient of retrying requests in case of failure
((AbstractHttpClient) client).setHttpRequestRetryHandler(new DefaultHttpRequestRetryHandler(0, false));

Here retry count is set to 0 to disable retry.

I found solution from this blog.

Answer 2

This resolved the issue for me. Using httpclient 4.3 and above.

HttpClientBuilder.create().disableAutomaticRetries().build();