[HTTPCORE-318] DefaultConnectionReuseStrategy -- need to honor keep alives when receiving a 404 on a HEAD request

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.2.2
• Fix Version/s: 5.0-alpha1
• Component/s: HttpCore
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jon Christiansen
• Created: 12/Oct/12 20:24
• Updated: 31/May/16 15:16
• Resolved: 26/Nov/14 20:35

Description

Code will not allow connection reuse if Content-Length header is not present.

If the request was a HEAD request and the response is a 404, this header is not present, but HttpClient should still be able to re-use the connection.

It should be very easy to add special case code when dealing with responses to HEAD requests.