Re: Suggestion for the HTTP client: allow selection of a local address

2018-08-08 Thread Michael McMahon
Klaus I've created an RFE at https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8209137 to track this. I imagine the simplest solution would be to be able to specify the local address when constructing a HttpClient, and then all connections created using that client would be bound to the chosen address.

Suggestion for the HTTP client: allow selection of a local address

2018-08-08 Thread Klaus Malorny
Hi, I just discussed with a colleague that we dreadfully miss the ability in the old HttpURLConnection to set the address to which the client locally binds, which we require to get through the firewalls of our business partners when connecting from a multihomed system. This repeatedly cause