Java based HTTP Client which supports Pipelining

Question

Do you know of any free Java library which support the HTTP pipelining option of HTTP/1.1 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_pipelining ) ?

Answer 1

hotpotato will support pipelining really soon. Performance-wise, it's way superior to Apache's HTTP Client, especially in high concurrency environments (multiple threads using the same instance of the client).

I still need to publish the results but on a LAN test, I'm getting ~7000req/s (hotpotato) vs ~100req/s (apache's). Of course, a great deal of the merit must go to Netty, the amazing framework hotpotato is built upon ;)

If you don't need a fancy full-fledged client, take a look here for a simpler version.