Apache Http Client prints "[read] I/O error: Read timed out""

Question

I am using apache http client v4.5 and using it as a REST client. In some cases I recognize an error "[read] I/O error: Read timed out" which comes from the httpclient framework when it reads the received content and shows it as a last message.

It seems not to have an impact, however I wonder if somebody has an idea where it is coming from and how it can be solved. According the following thread (link) it seems to be an issue with the "mutlithreaded" configuration.

However I use only the default configuration of http client and while I am using the version v4 I have no clue how I can set "multithreaded" to false to see if it makes any difference.

I also tried to set the timeouts but it did not helped.

Any hints?

Log:

15:48:05.984 [main] DEBUG org.apache.http.wire - http-outgoing-8 << "HTTP/1.1 200 OK[\r][\n]"
15:48:05.984 [main] DEBUG org.apache.http.wire - http-outgoing-8 << "Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 14:48:03 GMT[\r][\n]"
15:48:05.984 [main] DEBUG org.apache.http.wire - http-outgoing-8 << "Server: Apache/2.4.12 (Win32) OpenSSL/1.0.1l PHP/5.6.8[\r][\n]"
15:48:05.984 [main] DEBUG org.apache.http.wire - http-outgoing-8 << "X-Powered-By: PHP/5.6.8[\r][\n]"
15:48:05.985 [main] DEBUG org.apache.http.wire - http-outgoing-8 << "Cache-Control: nocache, private[\r][\n]"
15:48:05.985 [main] DEBUG org.apache.http.wire - http-outgoing-8 << "Content-Length: 99[\r][\n]"
15:48:05.985 [main] DEBUG org.apache.http.wire - http-outgoing-8 << "Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=99[\r][\n]"
15:48:05.985 [main] DEBUG org.apache.http.wire - http-outgoing-8 << "Connection: Keep-Alive[\r][\n]"
15:48:05.985 [main] DEBUG org.apache.http.wire - http-outgoing-8 << "Content-Type: application/json[\r][\n]"
15:48:05.985 [main] DEBUG org.apache.http.wire - http-outgoing-8 << "[\r][\n]"
15:48:05.985 [main] DEBUG org.apache.http.wire - http-outgoing-8 << "{"success":true,"data":{"id":1946,"location":"http:\/\/localhost:9001\/shop\/api\/articles\/1946"}}"
15:48:06.016 [main] DEBUG org.apache.http.wire - http-outgoing-8 << "[read] I/O error: Read timed out"

my Http client initialization

HttpClientBuilder httpBuilder = HttpClientBuilder.create();

//      set timeout did not helped
//      RequestConfig.Builder requestBuilder = RequestConfig.custom();
//      requestBuilder = requestBuilder.setConnectTimeout(timeout);
//      requestBuilder = requestBuilder.setConnectionRequestTimeout(timeout);
//      requestBuilder = requestBuilder.setSocketTimeout(timeout);
//      httpBuilder.setDefaultRequestConfig(requestBuilder.build());

HttpClient httpClient = httpBuilder.build();

Answer 1

I'm using httpclient 4.5.2 and in my case, setting the timeouts on a request helped:

HttpPost postRequest = new HttpPost("https://...");
postRequest.setHeader(..., ...);

RequestConfig requestConfig = RequestConfig.custom()
                        .setSocketTimeout(1000)
                        .setConnectTimeout(1000)
                        .build();

postRequest.setConfig(requestConfig);