HTTP Client Attributes

[Tom Scavo]

On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 2:05 PM, Brent Putman <putmanb at georgetown.edu> wrote:
>
> On 5/3/18 1:46 PM, Tom Scavo wrote:
>
> - By default, the HTTP metadata providers perform HTTP conditional GET
> but they do not cache the response body, and moreover, the cached HTTP
> headers do not survive a restart.
>
> Yes, for the batch ones.  The dynamic HTTP one does not cache the
> conditional GET headers internally, it delegates both conditional GET and
> response body caching to the HttpClient caching layer, and for that it
> defaults to 'memory'.  As the docs say.

What happens if httpCaching is set to "none" on DynamicHTTPMetadataProvider?

> - The full HTTP response will survive a restart if (and only if)
> httpCaching=”file”.
>
> No, 'file' doesn't survive restarts.  The point of that is disk-based
> caching to eliminate memory usage, not to be persistent across restarts.

Hmm, okay, then the docs are wrong. I'll fix that eventually (unless
you beat me to it).

Tom