Default keep-alive time for a HttpConnection when using Spring Rest Template

Question

I am trying to know how long a HttpConnection is kept alive when inactive, before a new connection is created via Spring rest Template. I looked at default Connection Time-Out

Answer 1

By default RestTemplate uses SimpleClientHttpRequestFactory which in turn opens Java's HttpURLConnection which by default supports keep-alive under certain conditions. If you want more control over how connections are handled, you can create restTemplate with HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory, which uses Apache HttpClient library, e.g:

@Bean
RestTemplate restTemplate(SimpleClientHttpRequestFactory factory) {
   return new RestTemplate(factory);
}

You can also see some discussions here:

How to Reuse HttpUrlConnection?

Persistent HttpURLConnection in Java

How to use RestTemplate efficiently in Multithreaded environment?