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

The cast to AbstractHttpClient is not necessary. Another way is to use a strategy with AutoRetryHttpClient with DefaultServiceUnavailableRetryStrategy set to 0 for retry parameter. A better way would be to extend the AbstractHttpClient or implement HttpClient to expose the desired method.