HttpClient stops to work. I guess it attempts to reuse closed by server connections.

I used modified HttpProxy with jetty as front end for the 2 webservers: amazon S3 and tomcat

It seems HttpClient attemtps to use connections that expired instead of creating new connections

I added page to jetty that replaces HttpClient object in servlet with a new instance of HttpClient.

private void initHttpClient() throws ServletException {
_client = new HttpClient();
_client.setConnectorType(HttpClient.CONNECTOR_SOCKET);
// _client.setConnectorType(HttpClient.CONNECTOR_SELECT_CHANNEL);
_client.setMaxConnectionsPerAddress(100);
// _client.setMaxRetries(0);
try

catch (Exception e)

}

Everytime when I am calling initHttpClient() method HttpProxy starts to work again for some time.

Both SOCKET and SELECT versions are affected

It happens after some unpredictable period of time: 30 minutes or 6 hours.