Release CloseableHttpResponse

[laszlohordos]

I'm using CloseableHttpResponse in httpclient-4.3 and I didn't find any other way to release the connection back to the pool. The default implementation close the DefaultHttpClient but I don't use that class.

[m-van-tilburg]

@laszlohordos Looking at (currently) the only implementation of CloseableHttpResponse, namely org.apache.http.impl.execchain.HttpResponseProxy calling close() will not release the connection back to the pool but it will close the connection. To release the connection back the pool you can use org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils.consume(super.res.getEntity()). The connections in the connection pool will be closed when the PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager is closed/shutdown.