[HTTPCLIENT-1236] Change exception message when timeout getting connection from pool

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.2.2
• Component/s: HttpClient (classic)
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Alf Høgemark
• Created: 25/Sep/12 16:37
• Updated: 05/Oct/13 19:41
• Resolved: 26/Sep/12 08:24

Description

I experienced a situation where the connection pool could not open any more connections, and then I got a timeout exception. My server logs only displayed the exception message, so I only saw :
"Timeout waiting for connection".
Because there were also some slight network problems, I originally believed that the exception was caused by the "Connection timeout period" set on the http connection had passed, and that the server I tried to reach had not accepted the connection quickly enough.

But later on I figured out it was the connection pool.

So I suggest to change the exception message from :
"Timeout waiting for connection"
to
"Timeout waiting for connection from pool"

to make it clear that it is a pool timeout and not a network connect timeout.