java: apache HttpClient > how to disable retry

Question

I\'m using Apache Httpclient for Ajax-calls on a website. In some cases requests to external webservice fail, often with:

I/O exception (java.net.ConnectException) caug

Answer 1

There's a description in the HttpClient tutorial.

 client.getParams().setParameter(HttpMethodParams.RETRY_HANDLER, 
           new DefaultHttpMethodRetryHandler());

See the tutorial for more information, for instance this may be harmful if the request has side effects (i.e. is not idempotent).